Robert Sullivan
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Robert Sullivan investigates the true history of the crossing of the Delaware, its down-home reenactment each year for the past half a century, and toward the end of a personal odyssey that involves camping in New Jersey backyards, hiking through lost mountains, he evacuates illegally from Brooklyn to Manhattan, recounts a Brooklyn historian's failed attempt to memorialize a colonial Maryland regiment and last but not least, along New York harbor,...
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Robert Sullivan, the New York Times bestselling author of Rats and Cross Country, delivers a revolutionary reconsideration of Henry David Thoreau for modern readers of the seminal transcendentalist. Dispelling common notions of Thoreau as a lonely eccentric cloistered at Walden Pond, Sullivan paints a dynamic picture of Thoreau as the naturalist who founded our American ideal of "the Great Outdoors;" the rugged individual who honed friendships with...
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Originally written in 1921 for the authors grandchildren, Hendrik Willem van Loons The Story of Mankind has charmed generations with its warmth, simplicity, and wisdom. Rather than the dry recitation of events so common in school textbooks, van Loons witty, amiable tone animates the story of human history as a grand and perpetually unfolding adventure. Beginning with the origins of human life and sweeping forward to illuminate all of history, van...
