The Thoreau You Don't Know: The Father of Nature Writers on the Importance of Cities, Finance, and Fooling Around
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780061710322 (0061710326)
Publish date: March 8th 2011
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
I didn't always agree with Sullivan but I thoroughly enjoyed his approach.
Robert Sullivan smashes our myth of Thoreau as the technophobic, misanthropic, tree-hugging loner and in its place depicts another man, one who grew up in Concord, but went to college at Harvard, grew melons and threw an annual melon party for his Concord neighbors, took over the family business (a ...