Audiobook16 hours
Expect Great Things: The Life of Henry David Thoreau
Written by Kevin Dann
Narrated by Norman Dietz
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth in 2017, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in our understanding of one modern history's most important spiritual visionaries by capturing the full arc of Thoreau's life as a mystic, spiritual seeker, and explorer in transcendental realms. This sweeping, epic biography of Henry David Thoreau sees Thoreau's world as the mystic himself saw it: filled with wonder and mystery; Native American myths and lore; wood sylphs, nature spirits, and fairies; battles between good and evil; and heroic struggles to live as a natural being in an increasingly synthetic world. Above all, Expect Great Things critically and authoritatively captures Thoreau's simultaneously wild and intellectually keen sense of the mystical, mythical, and supernatural. Other historians have skipped past or undervalued these aspects of Thoreau's life. In this groundbreaking work, historian and naturalist Kevin Dann restores Thoreau's esoteric visions and explorations to their rightful place as keystones of the man himself.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A biography that seeks to understand Thoreau through the influence the events of the mid-1800's, location and education. The book was quite informative and included many direct quotes from Thoreau's journals. Thoreau's terminology was well explained.My only complaint was the intrusion of the author into the biography through use of jargon (Harlequin & Elysian Fields in the same sentence!); unsupported conclusions ("actually a universal law"; "uniquely American") & wanderings (8 pages on sea serpents!)