The Thoreau You Don't Know: The Father of Nature Writers on the Importance of Cities, Finance, and Fooling Around - Brossura

Sullivan, Robert

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ISBN 10: 0061710326 ISBN 13: 9780061710322

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2011

Riassunto

Robert Sullivan, the New York Times bestselling author of Rats and Cross Country, delivers a revolutionary reconsideration of Henry David Thoreau for modern readers of the seminal transcendentalist. Dispelling common notions of Thoreau as a lonely eccentric cloistered at Walden Pond, Sullivan (whom theNew York Times Book Review calls “an urban Thoreau”) paints a dynamic picture of Thoreau as the naturalist who founded our American ideal of “the Great Outdoors;” the rugged individual who honed friendships with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other writers; and the political activist who inspired Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and other influential leaders of progressive change. You know Thoreau is one of America’s legendary writers...but the Thoreau you don’t know may be one of America’s greatest heroes.

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Praise for Cross Country: “Sullivan takes us on a propulsive ride...By book’s end, you’ll feel pleasantly tripped out...wide-eyed at all the sights you’ve seen along the way.”A- (Entertainment Weekly)

Praise for Cross Country: “Sullivan adopts the mantle of an urban Thoreau.” (New York Times Book Review)

Praise for Cross Country: “’Cross Country’ is, by turns, grand, timely, intriguing...fascinating.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

Praise for Cross Country: “Sullivan is everybody’s dad on a long cross-country car trip -- setting schedules, getting lost and trying to make the whole experience educational.” (Washington Post)

L'autore:

Robert Sullivan is the author of The Meadowlands, A Whale Hunt, Rats, and Cross Country. A contributing editor to Vogue, his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and Dwell magazine. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061710326
• ISBN 13: 9780061710322
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 353