The Portable Thoreau Laura Van Den Berg Stay True is a bracing

Stay True is a bracing memoir about growing up

can speak for all—and feel for all

Amelia Alexander

It’s her escape—a place of familiar shores and steady rhythms

The Portable Thoreau Laura Van Den Berg Stay True is a bracingSelf described as "a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot," Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his friends' advice to live in a more orthodox manner, he determinedly pursued his own inner bent that of a poet philosopher in prose and verse. Edited by