Thus begins Frances "Frankie" Wheat's recounting of an experience sixty years earlier, when, as a professor of nineteenth-century American literature, she was transported back in time to observe some of her heroes, and is made forty years younger in the process. She establishes a friendship with Henry David Thoreau, ever-conscious of her need not to upset anything that will change the course of Time and his importance to the future; yet as they enjoy having Picnics at Walden Pond, Frankie becomes suspicious of a larger agenda.
A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Thoreau Society.
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