Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind

8 best books like Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind (Robert D. Richardson Jr.): The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Walden, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey, Civil Disobedience, On Trails: An Exploration, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Author	Ayn Rand
ISBN	0451163931

Part II of multi-part review series.

Reading Rand reminds me of teaching freshman composition at university years ago. There’s not nearly as many spelling errors, but Rand’s pronouncements bear all the markers of severe Dunning-Kruger effect: under-researched, un-theorized, insufficiently...

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Author	Aldo Leopold
ISBN	0195007778

First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.

Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the...

Walden

Author	Henry David Thoreau
ISBN	0691096120

Originally published in 1854, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. This new paperback edition-introduced by noted American writer...

One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

Author	Sam Keith
ISBN	0882405136

To live in a pristine land unchanged by man...to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed...to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log cabin...to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available...to be not at odds with the world but content...

Civil Disobedience

Author

Henry David Thoreau

Book Review
I read this nearly twenty years ago in a college course. I recently found my notes and listed a few below, so this isn’t a typical review you’ve seen from me.
My reaction to this work is pretty complicated. It had some thought-invoking ideas, but it was boring from a readability...

On Trails: An Exploration

Author	Robert Moor
ISBN	1476739218

In 2009, while thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet: How do they form? Why do some improve over time while others fade? What makes us follow or strike off on our own?

Over the course of the next seven years, Moor traveled the globe,...

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Author	Eric Hoffer
ISBN	0060505915

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer -- the first and most famous of his books -- was made into a bestseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television...

The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

Author	Pico Iyer
ISBN	1476784728

A follow up to Pico Iyer’s essay “The Joy of Quiet,” The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug.

Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico Iyer, who has...