Expect Great Things; The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau

Dann, Kevin (Biography of Henry David Thoreau.)

ISBN 10: 039918466X / ISBN 13: 9780399184666

Published by Tarcher Perigee, New York

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[9780399184666] 2017. (Hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 387pp. The spine is lightly edgeworn at the top and bottom. "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". Biography of Henry David Thoreau. Book about Transcendentalism. Time Period 19th Century. Locale: New England. (Biography, Intellectual Life, Mysticism, Novelists).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Expect Great Things; The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
• Publisher: Tarcher Perigee, New York
• ISBN 10: 039918466X
• ISBN 13: 9780399184666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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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.

About the Author

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.