The Revelator - Laura Dassow Walls

Laura Dassow Walls

teaches 19th-century American literature and the history of ecological thought at the University of Notre Dame. She has written widely on Thoreau, Emerson, Humboldt and related figures; her most recent book, Henry David Thoreau: A Life (Chicago 2017), received the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Biography. She is currently at work on a literary biography of the American author Barry Lopez and planning her next hike into pika country.

Voices

Vanishing: In the Mountains, It Need Not Be Lonely at the Top

A climb in the Cascades to hear the voices of American pikas living at the edge of crisis.

October 22, 2021

Laura Dassow Walls

A climb in the Cascades to hear the voices of American pikas living at the edge of crisis.