Thoreau You Don't Know What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant

Name: Thoreau You Don't Know What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant
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ISBN: 9780061710315

ISBN-10: 0061710318

ISBN-13: 9780061710315

Edition: 2009

Authors: Robert Sullivan

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Henry David Thoreau is one of those authors that readers think they know, even if they don't. He's the solitary curmudgeon with the shack out in the woods, the mystic worshipping solemnly in the quiet church of nature. He's our national Natural Man, the prophet of environmentalism. But here Robert Sullivan-who himself has been called an "urban Thoreau" (New York Times Book Review)-presents the Thoreau you don't know: the activist, the organizer, the gregarious adventurer, the guy who likes to go camping with friends (even if they sometimes accidentally burn the woods down). Sullivan argues that Walden was a book intended to revive America, a communal work forever pigeonholed as a reclusive…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/17/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English