Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau / by Kevin Dann.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, New York : TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 387 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780399184666
- 039918466X
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Main Library | Biography | Thoreau, H. D188 | Available | 33111008877645 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-370) and index.
Declarations of independence -- Seeing the unseen -- Prodigies and wonders -- A turning point in time -- "What You Commonly See Is but Half" -- Expansion and contraction -- Faith in a seed.
"To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth in 2017, this...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."-- Provided by publisher.