The Road to Walden: 12 Life Lessons from a Sojourn to Thoreau's Cabin. Paperback. Walking from Manhattan to Henry David Thoreau's cabin, a naturalist and Thoreau scholar reflects on the lessons from the seminal thinker's writings and life, as well as recounting his own pedestrian adventure and the people and realizations met along the way. (** This book may contain a sharpie mark on the top or bottom edge and may show mild signs of shelfwear. **.)