Michael Sims is the author of four nonfiction books: DARWIN'S ORCHESTRA, ADAM'S NAVEL, APOLLO'S FIRE, and a companion book to the National Geographic Channel series "In the Womb: Animals." His three previous literary collections include THE ANNOTATED ARCHY AND MEHITABEL, THE PENGUIN BOOK OF GASLIGHT CRIME, and ARSENE LUPIN, GENTLEMAN-THIEF. His writing has appeared in many periodicals in the U.S. and abroad, including New Statesman, Washington Post, Orion, American Archaeology, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and many others. He speaks often at colleges and other institutions and has appeared on many TV and radio programs, from CBS's Early Show and Inside Edition to a BBC Radio series about the human body.

Books by Michael Sims

The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond

by Michael Sims - Biography, Nonfiction

THE ADVENTURES OF HENRY THOREAU --- chronicling the 10 years in his life beginning with Harvard in 1837 and ending as he walked away from Walden Pond after living in his long dreamed-of cabin for only two years --- tells the dramatic (and at times heartbreaking) story of how a troubled young man found a meaningful life in a tempestuous era.