On todays show, our guest is Robert M. Thorson, author of Waldens Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science (Harvard University Press, paperback August 2015). Thorson is a geologist who decided to read Thoreaus classic literary work for its observations about nature. He argues that Thoreau was as skilled a naturalist as he was a writer. Later in the hour, contributing editor Erin Blakemore talks about whats happened to the remains of the Romanovs.

Music this hour:

“Forgiven Not Forgotten” by Jahzzar, from the album Kuddelmuddel

“Soldiertype (militarised)” by Ketsa, from the album What’s Without’s Within

Travel Light by Jason Shaw, from the album Audionatix: Acoustic

Prelude No. 14 by Chris Zabriskie, from the album Preludes

Out of the Skies, Under the Earth by Chris Zabriskie, from the album Reappear