ABSTRACT
Henry David Thoreau, naturalist, essayist, and land surveyor – in short, nineteenth-century geohumanist – is an obvious subject for this collection. The common ground that this book seeks to describe Thoreau explored all his life. Thoreau earned most of his income from land surveying, which took advantage of his mathematical mind. But his heart lay with the creative writing he did in his journals and essays, which let his expansive imagination riff on the nature he observed during his surveys and his daily walks.
