Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau - Couverture rigide

Dann, Kevin

 
9780399184666: Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
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ISBN 10 : 039918466X ISBN 13 : 9780399184666
Editeur : TarcherPerigee, 2017

Synopsis

To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth in 2017, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in our understanding of one modern history's most important spiritual visionaries by capturing the full arc of Thoreau's life as a mystic, spiritual seeker, and explorer in transcendental realms.

This sweeping, epic biography of Henry David Thoreau sees Thoreau's world as the mystic himself saw it: filled with wonder and mystery; Native American myths and lore; wood sylphs, nature spirits, and fairies; battles between good and evil; and heroic struggles to live as a natural being in an increasingly synthetic world.

Above all, Expect Great Things critically and authoritatively captures Thoreau's simultaneously wild and intellectually keen sense of the mystical, mythical, and supernatural.

Other historians have skipped past or undervalued these aspects of Thoreau's life. In this groundbreaking work, historian and naturalist Kevin Dann restores Thoreau's esoteric visions and explorations to their rightful place as keystones of the man himself.

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À propos de l'auteur

Historian, naturalist, and troubadour Kevin Dann is the author of ten books, including Across the Great Border Fault: The Naturalist Myth in America and Lewis Creek Lost and Found. He received his PhD from Rutgers University in American History and Environmental History. Dann has taught at Rutgers, University of Vermont, and the State University of New York. In the spring of 2009, he walked from Montreal to Manhattan to commemorate the 400th anniversaries of Hudson's and Champlain's voyages, and, having crossed the Brooklyn Bridge, decided to make his home there.

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Éditeur
TarcherPerigee
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
039918466X
ISBN 13 
9780399184666
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
400
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780399184673: Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0399184678 ISBN 13 :  9780399184673
Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2018
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