In Wander-Thrush, Dave Crews inhabits the Adirondacks with Emerson's 'transparent eye' ("To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.") He experiences the history, the land, the wilderness, the mountains, the trees, the birds (and the mud, snow and rain) ... and hears their songs. It's an advertisement to put down the smartphone and go do it yourself.