August Derleth lived all of his life in Sauk City, Wisconsin, a source of inspiration and substance for his vast range of writing, including In the Course of My Walks. While exploring the meaning of the lives of the men and women in the village on the banks of the Wisconsin River, the natural background--fields, woods, plants, marshes, water, and the wild creatures of the land and sky--was ever present in his writing. Derleth identified with...