9780061710315
The Thoreau You Don't Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant
Robert Sullivan
ISBN 13: 9780061710315
Publisher: Collins
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
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An alternate profile of the iconic American and environmental writer explores Thoreau's lesser-known contributions as an activist, organizer, and adventurer who was more social than his reclusive persona suggested; in an account that also argues that
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"Sounding like your favorite teacher who manages to make history fun and relevant, Sullivan vibrantly portrays the sage of Walden as a geeky, curious, compassionate fellow of high intelligence and deep feelings who loved company, music, and long walks." (starred review)
Donna Seaman, Booklist, 02/15/2009
Review:"It's time to pack the old Thoreau...in mothballs and break out the new. This new model...is a wisecracking, subversive, entrepreneurial party boy..."
David Gessner, New York Times Book Review, 04/19/2009
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Book Description: Collins. 1 Cloth(s), 2009. hard. Book Condition: New. Many readers think they know Henry David Thoreau, imagining the solitary curmudgeon with the shack out in the woods. But in this delightfully engaging book, a New York Times Editors' Choice, Robert Sullivan gives us a gregarious adventurer, the guy who liked to go camping with friends (even if they sometimes accidentally burned the woods down). Sullivan's Thoreau is no lonely eccentric but a man who danced and sang, who worked throughout his short life at the family pencil-making business, who moved into his parents' house after leaving Walden Pond and always paid his father rent. "A mischievous reporter on the universe, Sullivan has found beauty in a notorious swamp in The Meadowlands and wisdom in an alley in Rats. In his latest slyly philosophical inquiry, he endeavors to free Henry David Thoreau from his calcified reputation as a cantankerous hermit and nature worshipper. Sounding like your favorite teacher who manages to make history fun and relevant, Sullivan vibrantly portrays the sage of Walden as a geeky, curious, compassionate fellow of high intelligence and deep feelings who loved company, music, and long walks. An exceptional writer mad for puns, Thoreau was also a bold social critic and—the crux of Sullivan's stimulating argument—a brilliant, tongue-in-cheek humorist. Sullivan, himself plenty saucy, also elucidates Thoreau's radical focus on 'man's interaction with nature.' In command of a great diversity of fascinating material, Sullivan succinctly illuminates the striking parallels between Thoreau's time and ours—foreclosures, lost jobs, and rapid technological change. Thoreau remains vital and valuable because of his acute observations, wit, and lyricism and his recognition that the 'force of life is everywhere,' a perception even more essential now that the consequences of the societal choices Thoreau prophetically critiqued have reached staggering proportions."—Booklist (starred review) 354. Bookseller Inventory # 21153 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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