Kevin Dann: 5 books

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...

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...

Despite the explosion of books, videos and TV shows that claim to penetrate the mystery of 2012the numerical shorthand for the completion on December 21, 2012, of the thirteenth Baktun cycle in the Long Count of the Maya calendarconsensus about its meaning seems to remain elusive. As metaphysical speculation...

Like the prostrate pilgrim on the front cover-with his head protruding through the vault of heaven to discern the working of the cosmos-humanity has for many centuries employed astrology to penetrate the mystery of the stars relationship to human destiny. Based on decades of research into both astrological...

Darrell Schweitzer interviews seventeen science fiction writers. Included are scintillating conversations with: George R. R. Martin, James Morrow, Jack Dann, Geoffrey A. Landis, Joe W. Haldeman, Zoran Zivkovic, Esther M. Friesner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Frost, Tom Purdom, D....