Followed by the Lark Audiobook by Helen Humphreys

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 728586 Title: Followed by the Lark Author: Helen Humphreys Narrator: Jennifer Pickens Format: Unabridged Length: 04:42:15 Language: English Release date: 02-13-24 Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Essays & Anthologies Summary: Composed in small scenes, Followed by the Lark is a novel of meditationson loss, on change, on the danger and healing that come from communion with the natural world. Henry David Thoreau's connection to nature was tied to his feelings of grief: before he was twenty-seven years old and went to live at Walden Pond, two of those closest to him had diedhis older brother, John, and his friend Charles Wheeler. Nature provided solace for these losses, but the world was changing around him. The forests were being destroyed by the logging industry. Wildlife was increasingly slaughtered for profit and sport. The railroad clanged through his quiet hometown. And the catastrophes of the American Civil War were beginning to stir just as his own life was coming to an end. Haunting in its quiet spaces, in the way it imagines the missed connections in his relationships, Followed by the Lark is uncommon in its combination of scope and brevity, in its communion with its subject while still maintaining critical distance. Thoreaus life in the early nineteenth century seems firmly in the past, but his time bears striking similarities to ours. As she explores these intersections in Followed by the Lark, Helen Humphreys elegantly, insistently illustrates how Thoreaus concerns are still, vitally, our own. Contact: [email protected]