A bear, modeled on a young Henry Thoreau, appears frugal to his friends as he sets about building a cabin. Includes biographical information about Thoreau.

Composed in small scenes, Followed by the Lark is a novel of meditations-- on loss, on change, on the danger and healing that come from communion with the natural world, set against a backdrop of great change and tumult in America. 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 died-- his older brother, John, and his friend Charles...