EPISODE · Jul 18, 2018 · 57 MIN
The Road to Walden: 12 Life Lessons from a Sojourn to Thoreau's Cabin
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The Road to Walden: 12 Life Lessons from a Sojourn to Thoreau's Cabin with Kevin Dann The acclaimed author of Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau traverses on foot from Manhattan to Walden Pond, retracing Thoreau's steps and unlocking the practical principles of the mystic's life in the woods. When Henry David Thoreau launched his experiment in living at Walden Pond, he began by walking beyond the narrow limits of his neighbors, simply by putting himself at a mile removed from Concord's bourgeois epicenter - and a thousand-miles removed from stasis, complacency, and conformity. Kevin Dann emulates and extends Thoreau's experiment in radical self-education. Alternating between personal anecdotes from his spring 2017 walking pilgrimage and other "traveler" encounters and episodes told by Thoreau, Dann structures his book around 12 "injunctions"--distillations of seminal stories about overcoming convention and stasis. In this essential reading for every Thoreau enthusiast, naturalist and historian Kevin Dann brings to life an essential American icon in a refreshing and modern way. Click here to purchase Kevin's book from Amazon.com ************************************************* For more information about BITEradio products and services visit: http://www.biteradio.me/index.html
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The Road to Walden: 12 Life Lessons from a Sojourn to Thoreau's Cabin with Kevin Dann The acclaimed author of Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau traverses on foot from Manhattan to Walden Pond, retracing Thoreau's steps and unlocking the practical principles of the mystic's life in the woods. When Henry David Thoreau launched his experiment in living at Walden Pond, he began by walking beyond the narrow limits of his neighbors, simply by putting himself at a mile removed from Concord's bourgeois epicenter - and a thousand-miles removed from stasis, complacency, and conformity. Kevin Dann emulates and extends Thoreau's experiment in radical self-education. Alternating between personal anecdotes from his spring 2017 walking pilgrimage and other "traveler" encounters and episodes told by Thoreau, Dann structures his book around 12 "injunctions"--distillations of seminal stories about overcoming convention and stasis. In this essential reading for every Thoreau enthusiast, naturalist and historian Kevin Dann brings to life an essential American icon in a refreshing and modern way. Click here to purchase Kevin's book from Amazon.com ************************************************* For more information about BITEradio products and services visit: http://www.biteradio.me/index.html
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