Robert Sullivan, Author . Collins $25.99 (354p) ISBN 978-0-06-171031-5
Sullivan (Rats
) weaves biography and American history in this playful attempt to recast Thoreau as more a complex (and convivial) creature than a dour and ascetic environmentalist and “anarchical loner.” The book may stir controversy...
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Robert Sullivan. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32 (448p) ISBN 978-0-374-15116-4
Journalist Sullivan (Rats) blends memoir, biography, and history for a meditative if diffuse portrait of celebrated 19th-century photographer Timothy O’Sullivan (1840–1882) and the changing landscape of the American West. Entranced by the pictures...
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Robert Sullivan, Author . Bloomsbury $23.95 (242p) ISBN 978-1-58234-385-3
In this excellent narrative, Sullivan uses the brown rat as the vehicle for a labyrinthine history of the Big Apple. After pointing out a host of facts about rats that are sure to make you start itching ("if you are in New York... you are within
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Robert Sullivan, Author Scribner Book Company $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-684-83285-2
Just five short, swampy miles from Manhattan, the New Jersey Meadowlands are awash in refuse of all sorts, from toxic waste and landfill to tangled heaps of abortive real-estate development--and perhaps even Jimmy Hoffa's remains. A freelance...
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Robert Sullivan, Author Scribner Book Company $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-86433-4
In 1999, a small armada of animal rights activists, TV crews and Coast Guard ships swarmed around a canoe off the coast of Washington State carrying seven Makah Indians as they hunted and killed a gray whale for the first time in living memory. The...
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Robert Sullivan. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-21745-7
A nostalgic, witty, and always informative topographic retrospective of the sites pertinent to the American Revolution takes Vogue contributing editor and journalist Sullivan (The Thoreau You Don’t Know) to the action seen by the middle colonies...
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Robert Sullivan, Author, Glenn Wolff, Illustrator Simon & Schuster $22 (96p) ISBN 978-0-684-85524-0
Profusely illustrated and oddly charming, this hybrid of tall tale, oceanography and ancient history is written with a sophisticated sense of whimsy. In the opening chapter, the mysterious Atwater, a (fictional) oceanographer, alerts the author to...
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Robert Sullivan, Author, Glenn Wolff, Illustrator John Wiley & Sons $19.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-02-861292-8
Will Steger, world famous as a Polar explorer, has written about his exploits in several books. Never before, however, has he revealed his most extraordinary adventure: his 1986 expedition to Santa Claus's village at the North Pole. ""Above us,...
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Robert Sullivan, Author . Bloomsbury $24.95 (389p) ISBN 978-1-58234-527-7
Sullivan (Rats
; The Meadowlands
) offers a boisterous, busily researched composite of trips he and his family have taken across the American continent. Sullivan claims he's gone from the West to East Coast and back about 27 times over the years,
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