The Fragility of Solitude

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Excursions near and Far
6. Wild Apples 1
7. My Guidebook to Japan 13
8. Walden and the Black Quest for Nature, or My Summer Vacation with Big Sis 23
9. Twenty-Four Hours on Pea Island 41
10. The Fragility of Solitude 51
11. My Failure 62
12. Without 70
13. Deliberate Living
14. To a Slower Life 95
15. Walden as an Art 104
16. The Year of Not Living Thickly 118
17. If I Had Loved Her Less 127
18. Following Thoreau 148
19. Directions of his Dreams
20. Thoreau on Ice 161
21. “The Record of My Love”: Thoreau and the Art of Science 176
22. The Apples of His Eye 188
23. You Bring the Weather with You 198
24. Thoreau in Love 206
25. Practicalities
26. As for Clothing 219
27. On Pencils and Purpose 227
28. The House That Thoreau Built 238
29. Is It Worth the While? 249
30. A Few Elements of American Style 259
31. At Walden
32. Concord Is a Kind of Word 271
33. Dolittle’s Rebellion 287
34. Ice, for the Time Being 301
35. Walden at Midnight: Three Walks with Thoreau 310
36. Simplify, Simplify 322
37. Notes 323
38. Contributors 339
39. Credits 347