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In 1845, the young American Henry David Thoreau went to live in nature at Walden Pond in Massachusetts. He went on to publish ‘Walden’, based on that experience. But although he lived alone, he was not isolated. Here, the scholar Yoshiaki Furui gives his view on how Thoreau experienced his own rather modern form of solitude whilst living in the woods – and how it speaks to our busy lives today.

Photo: Walden Pond (John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)