A powerful and timely book from one of the most provocative and
engaging voices in contemporary environmental writing.
--MICHAEL P. BRANCH, author of How to Cuss in Western
When the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner turned to Henry
David Thoreau, the original social distancer, for lessons on how to
live. Those lessons--of learning our own backyard, re-wilding, loving
nature, self-reliance, and civil disobedience--hold a secret that could
help save us as we face the greater crisis of climate.
DAVID GESSNER is the author of Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through
Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness and the New York
Times-bestselling All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace
Stegner and the American West. Chair of the Creative Writing Department
at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and founder and
editor-in-chief of Ecotone, Gessner lives in Wilmington, North
Carolina, with his wife, the novelist Nina de Gramont, and their
daughter, Hadley.