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Dr. Kevin Dann is a historian, naturalist, and troubadour.
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Dr. Kevin Dann is a historian, naturalist, and troubadour. He is the author of a dozen books of exploration on everything from the mysteries of serpentine stone to the psychological riddle of synaesthesia to the biography Henry David Thoreau. Dann has taught at Rutgers University, the University of Vermont, and the State University of New York. Founder of the pioneering Metahistorical institution, Mermaids Are Real, Dann also writes, produces, and performs immersive street theatrical extravaganzas in New York City. Dann’s books include ''[https://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-New-York-Broadway-Manhattans/dp/1479838268 Enchanted New York: A Journey Along Broadway Through Manhattan’s Magical Past]'' (2020) and ''[https://www.amazon.com/Expect-Great-Things-Search-Thoreau/dp/0399184678/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OVN1FB8QKUS4&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FMuRZJy1-K8w2I_ZepnYwuYWzzPmqWAay2MYSnTk3Fzewg9C0SF6DOp7sbq4mgmTqXbv-Ex7htBZXwfsE23A-lqM-yn9LLNrRe97sv80VdgCLpAYSe_XWQ5utODz__SPw_6zDNwAYebt2talTyCR2Q.NUZkR2i85DE5rQwL8eGFG4b-tPv2vNZPzsQIckTmkm0&dib_tag=se&keywords=expect+great+things+henry+david+thoreau&qid=1741120127&s=books&sprefix=expect+great+things+henry+david+thoreau%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C220&sr=1-1 Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau]'' (2017). He leads bike tours in New York City. Find him online at: [https://www.drdann.com/ www.drdann.com].
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Dann surveys the phenomenon on spiritualists in 19th-century New York City.
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John Kaag reviews Kevin Dann’s book ''[https://www.amazon.com/Expect-Great-Things-Search-Thoreau/dp/0399184678/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OVN1FB8QKUS4&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.FMuRZJy1-K8w2I_ZepnYwuYWzzPmqWAay2MYSnTk3Fzewg9C0SF6DOp7sbq4mgmTqXbv-Ex7htBZXwfsE23A-lqM-yn9LLNrRe97sv80VdgCLpAYSe_XWQ5utODz__SPw_6zDNwAYebt2talTyCR2Q.NUZkR2i85DE5rQwL8eGFG4b-tPv2vNZPzsQIckTmkm0&dib_tag=se&keywords=expect+great+things+henry+david+thoreau&qid=1741120127&s=books&sprefix=expect+great+things+henry+david+thoreau%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C220&sr=1-1 Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau]'' (2017).
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''[https://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-New-York-Broadway-Manhattans/dp/1479838268 Enchanted New York]'' chronicles an alternate history of this magical isle. It offers a tour along Broadway, focusing on times and places that illuminate a forgotten and sometimes hidden history of New York through site-specific stories of wizards, illuminati, fortune tellers, magicians, and more. Progressing up New York’s central thoroughfare, this guidebook to magical Manhattan offers a history you won’t find in your Lonely Planet or Fodor’s guide, tracing the arc of American technological alchemies―from Samuel Morse and Robert Fulton to the Manhattan Project—to Mesmeric physicians, to wonder-working Madame Blavatsky, and seers Helena Roerich and Alice Bailey. Harry Houdini appears and disappears, as the world’s premier stage magician’s feats of prestidigitation fade away to reveal a much more mysterious—and meaningful—marquee of magic. Unlike old-world cities, New York has no ancient monuments to mark its magical adolescence. There is no local memory embedded in the landscape of celebrated witches, warlocks, gods, or goddesses—no myths of magical metamorphoses. As we follow Kevin Dann in geographical and chronological progression up Broadway from Battery Park to Inwood, each chapter provides a surprising picture of a city whose ever-changing fortunes have always been founded on magical activity.
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This 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, ''[https://www.amazon.com/Expect-Great-Things-Search-Thoreau/dp/039918466X 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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Dr. Dann introduces his book, ''Enchanted New York.''
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