The Road to Walden

12 Life Lessons from a Sojourn to Thoreau's Cabin

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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.
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Schrijver
Dann, Kevin (Kevin Dann)
Titel
The Road to Walden
Uitgever
J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.
Jaar
2018
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
224
Gewicht
204 gr
EAN
9780143132837
Afmetingen
210 x 140 x 19 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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