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The road to Walden : 12 life lessons from a sojourn to Thoreau's cabin / Kevin Dann.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : TarcherPerigee, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xvii, 201 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780143132837
  • 0143132830
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Up Broadway: AWAKE! -- "When a feller needs a friend": SPEAK! -- Learn to DANCE! -- Into the vortex: CREATE! -- Captaining Huckleberry parties: SENSE! -- Gone fishin': SYMPATHIZE -- Making worlds: BEFRIEND! -- Fires within and without: BURN! -- In the quiet corner: BREATHE! -- The respectable folks: WHISPER! -- A track repairer in the orbit of the Earth: LOSE! -- TRANSCEND! -- Appendix: 12 steps on the transcendental trail.
Summary: "The acclaimed author of Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau traverses on foot from Manhattan to the site of Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond, often retracing steps walked by Thoreau himself, and unlocks the practical principles of the mystic's life in the woods. When Henry David Thoreau launched his experiment in living at Walden Pond, he began by walking beyond the narrow limits of his neighbors, simply by putting himself at a mile remove from Concord's bourgeois epicenter--and a thousand-mile remove from stasis, complacency, and conformity. Kevin Dann emulates and extends Thoreau's experiment in radical self-education. Alternating between personal anecdotes from his spring 2017 walking pilgrimage and other "traveler" encounters and episodes told by Thoreau, Dann structures his book around 12 "injunctions"--Distillations of seminal stories about overcoming convention and stasis"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The acclaimed author of Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau traverses on foot from Manhattan to Walden Pond, retracing Thoreau's steps and unlocking the practical principles of the mystic's life in the woods.

When Henry David Thoreau launched his experiment in living at Walden Pond, he began by walking beyond the narrow limits of his neighbors, simply by putting himself at a mile remove from Concord's bourgeois epicenter - and a thousand-mile remove from stasis, complacency, and conformity. Kevin Dann emulates and extends Thoreau's experiment in radical self-education. Alternating between personal anecdotes from his spring 2017 walking pilgrimage and other "traveler" encounters and episodes told by Thoreau, Dann structures his book around 12 "injunctions"--distillations of seminal stories about overcoming convention and stasis. In this essential reading for every Thoreau enthusiast, naturalist and historian Kevin Dann brings to life an essential American icon in refreshing and modern way.

"A TarcherPerigee Book"--Title page verso.

Up Broadway: AWAKE! -- "When a feller needs a friend": SPEAK! -- Learn to DANCE! -- Into the vortex: CREATE! -- Captaining Huckleberry parties: SENSE! -- Gone fishin': SYMPATHIZE -- Making worlds: BEFRIEND! -- Fires within and without: BURN! -- In the quiet corner: BREATHE! -- The respectable folks: WHISPER! -- A track repairer in the orbit of the Earth: LOSE! -- TRANSCEND! -- Appendix: 12 steps on the transcendental trail.

"The acclaimed author of Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau traverses on foot from Manhattan to the site of Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond, often retracing steps walked by Thoreau himself, and unlocks the practical principles of the mystic's life in the woods. When Henry David Thoreau launched his experiment in living at Walden Pond, he began by walking beyond the narrow limits of his neighbors, simply by putting himself at a mile remove from Concord's bourgeois epicenter--and a thousand-mile remove from stasis, complacency, and conformity. Kevin Dann emulates and extends Thoreau's experiment in radical self-education. Alternating between personal anecdotes from his spring 2017 walking pilgrimage and other "traveler" encounters and episodes told by Thoreau, Dann structures his book around 12 "injunctions"--Distillations of seminal stories about overcoming convention and stasis"-- Provided by publisher.

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