By Ben Shattuck

Favorite quote: ”There are families like theirs still, huddled in a seaside house in the middle of winter, in our century, deciding who will skate out for dinner. A family in Henry’s time probably spent a day like this, playing games and ice fishing, too. It comforted me to think that technology hadn’t taken away the satisfaction of a warm house on a winter day. Fish can still be caught, fires lit.No matter how crowded our lives fell, the old ways haven’t entirely disappeared. You can still reach back for some of them.”

From the Publisher: On an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf of bread, brick of cheese, and a notebook, Shattuck sets out to retrace Thoreau’s path through the Cape’s outer beaches, from the elbow to Provincetown’s fingertip. Intimate, entertaining, and beautifully crafted, Six Walks is a resounding tribute to the ways walking in nature can inspire us all.

Dimensions: 5 x 8 in / 288 pages

Hardcover