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A "New York Times" Editors' Choice Most readers think they know Henry David Thoreau: the solitary curmudgeon with the shack out in the woods. In this delightfully engaging book, Robert Sullivan gives us the Thoreau we "don't" know: the gregarious adventurer, the guy who liked to go camping with friends (even if they sometimes accidentally burned the woods down). Here is no lonely eccentric but a man who danced and sang, who worked throughout his short life at the family pencil-making business, who moved into his parents' house after leaving Walden Pond and always paid his father rent. Passionate yet whimsical, "The Thoreau You Don't Know" asks us to cast off our misconceptions as we reexamine our everyday relationship with the natural world and one another.

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• Full title: The Thoreau You Don't Know: The Father of Nature Writers on the Importance of Cities, Finance, and Fooling Around
• Author: Robert Sullivan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 354
• EAN: 9780061710322
• ISBN: 0061710326
• ID: 11302002
• Publisher: Perennial
• Weight: 285 g
• Dimensions: 205 × 136 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: March 2011

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