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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Thoreau, Henry David

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9780140434422: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Penguin Classics)
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ISBN 10: 0140434429 ISBN 13: 9780140434422
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1998

Synopsis

Thoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves descriptions of natural phenomena, the rural landscape, and local characters with digressions on literature and philosophy, the Native American and Puritian histories of New England, the Bhagavad Gita, the imperfections of Christianity, and many other subjects. Although it shares many of the themes in Thoreau's classic Walden, A Week on the Concord offers an alternative perspective on his analaysis of the relationship between nature and culture.

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About the Author

Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The Transcendentalists' faith in nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for twenty-six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond. While living at Walden, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime: Walden (1854) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). Several of his other works, including The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, and Excursions, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0140434429
ISBN 13 
9780140434422
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
368
Editor
Peck H. Daniel
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  • 3.68 out of 5 stars
    717 ratings by Goodreads