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Walls, Laura Dassow
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Fiction
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2017
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The University of Chicago Press
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en-US
โ 5 MB
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Expect Great Things: The Life and Sh of Henry David Thoreau
โ Scribed by Dann, Kevin
- Book ID
- 108953527
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 746 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780399184666
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ 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...
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