Pilgrims to the Wild: Everett Ruess,Henry David Thoreau,John
Pilgrims to the Wild is a survey of American writers who have responded to their encounters with the natural world. Ranging in its treatment from Thoreaus important but neglected essay,'Walking,' to the exuberant letters of the young artist Everett Ruess (who disappeared in the Escalante canyonlands),this is a broadly based exploration that brings to bear Eastern and Western classical philosophy,as well as contemporary critical theory,on a distinctive tradition of American Writingthose