Letters to a Spiritual Seeker
17 January 2006
Description
"With quotable lines on every page, this is an important and affecting addition to the Thoreau shelf." —Booklist
The writing of Henry David Thoreau is as full of life today as it was when he published Walden one hundred years ago. In seeking to understand nature, Thoreau sought to "lead a fresh, simple life with God." In 1848 a seeker named Harrison Blake, yearning for a spiritual life of his own, asked the then-fledgling writer for guidance. The fifty letters that ensued, collected here for the first time in their own volume by Thoreau specialist Bradley P. Dean, are by turns earnest, oracular, witty, playful, practical— and deeply insightful and inspiring, as one would expect from America's best prose stylist and great moral philosopher.
Also By: Henry David Thoreau 
Walden and Other Writings (The Norton Library)
First Edition, E Book, 2023
Walden
First Edition, E Book, 2023
Walden and Other Writings (The Norton Library)
First Edition, Paperback, 2023
October, or Autumnal Tints
E Book, 2012
“A gorgeous edition” (Boston Globe) of Thoreau’s classic work, enhanced with an illuminating essay and beautiful watercolors.
Walden / Civil Disobedience / and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition
Third Edition, Paperback, 2008
Also By: Bradley P. Dean
Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript
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"This wonderful book is both a practical and a philosophical field guide to the natural gifts of the American countryside."—Audubon