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Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
- Item Number
- 120
- Estimated Value
- 30 USD
- Sold
- 26 USD to cr4d6671c
- Number of Bids
- 4 - Bid History
Item Description
Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau by Kevin Dann
Hardcover, Tarcher-Perifree, January 2017
Just in time for the bicentennial year of Henry's birth! The author will send an autographed book to the winning bidder.
From Publisher's Weekly:
... Dann acknowledges Thoreau’s place among fellow transcendentalists Bronson Alcott, Margaret Fuller, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, but is more interested in the experiences that led Thoreau to his oracular poetry and the intense study of the natural world recorded in his journals. This book depicts Thoreau’s scrupulous observations as both scientific and reverent, eschewing the mechanical and analytical for “a relational, sympathetic science” that saw the world as numinous and alive with spirits. It dives so deeply into the project of mapping Thoreau’s internal landscape that the outline of his outer life—his work, his relationships, even his famous experiment at Walden Pond of “the very serious business of living authentically”—seems only lightly sketched in comparison. ...
Item Special Note
Book to be released January 2017.
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