The Thoreau You Don't Know: The Father of Nature Writers on the Importance of Cities, Finance, and Fooling Around

by Robert Sullivan

Book Overview

Robert Sullivan, the New York Times bestselling author of Rats and Cross Country, delivers a revolutionary reconsideration of Henry David Thoreau for modern readers of the seminal transcendentalist. Dispelling common notions of Thoreau as a lonely eccentric cloistered at Walden Pond, Sullivan (whom the New York Times Book Review calls "an urban Thoreau") paints a dynamic picture of Thoreau as the naturalist who founded our American ideal of "the Great...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061710326
• ISBN13: 9780061710322
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.0"