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"Why Go Straight? Stepping Out with Henry David Thoreau's "Walking" and Edward Thomas' The Icknield Way"

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From: Environmental History
Date: 20050701
Author:Anonymous

Palmer, Scott. "Why Go Straight? Stepping Out with Henry David Thoreau's "Walking" and Edward Thomas' The Icknield Way." ISLE [Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] 12 (Winter 2005): 1150129. Explores the act of walking in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century writings of Henry David Thoreau and Edward Thomas, on whom Thoreau was a powerful influence, as essential to the process of understanding and communicating with the natural world.

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