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Cape Cod

Published: 2025-08-12. 78,703 Words.

Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel

A wanderer roams Cape Cod’s windswept beaches and rugged dunes, capturing its stark beauty and quirky seaside life. From shipwrecks to hardy fishermen, his keen observations weave a vivid portrait of the peninsula’s wild shores and resilient people. This reflective journey through 19th-century New England blends nature’s poetry with human tales, celebrating a land shaped by sea and solitude.

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Canoeing in the wilderness

Published: 2024-08-13. 33,898 Words.

Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel

A solitary adventurer paddles through Maine’s untamed rivers and lakes, immersed in pristine forests and tranquil waters. With keen eyes, he observes wildlife, native guides, and the raw beauty of the wilderness. This reflective journey, rich with vivid details, celebrates nature’s majesty and the quiet revelations of a soul attuned to the wild’s timeless rhythm in 19th-century America.

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A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-slavery and reform papers

Published: 2024-08-13. 86,921 Words.

Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel

A restless wanderer ventures into Canada, capturing its rugged landscapes and cultural quirks with keen insight. Blending travelogue with fiery essays, he rails against slavery's moral rot and champions reform, urging readers to confront injustice and embrace individual conscience in a world bound by convention.

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Published: 2024-08-13. 116,159 Words.

Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel

Two brothers embark on a week-long boat journey through New England’s rivers, blending vivid nature observations with deep reflections on life, art, and spirituality. Their adventure, rich with poetic musings and encounters with the wild, celebrates the beauty of simplicity and the quest for inner truth

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Walking

Published: 2024-08-12. 12,249 Words.

Categories: Non-Fiction » Philosophy

Celebrating the art of wandering on foot, this lyrical essay treats untamed fields and forest paths as a doorway to inner freedom. Tracing the border between town and wilderness, it urges readers to leave routines behind, breathe with the landscape, and rediscover a fierce, living connection to the world that civilised life too easily forgets.

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Walden and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

Published: 2024-08-12. 116,426 Words.

Categories: Non-Fiction » Philosophy

Withdrawing to a small cabin by a quiet pond, a man strips life to its bare essentials to ask what truly matters. From seasons of solitude and keen observation he shapes a fierce defense of conscience, arguing that genuine freedom demands simple living, moral clarity, and the courage to resist unjust power, even when standing alone.

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