A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers - Softcover

Thoreau, Henry David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604592974 ISBN 13: 9781604592979

Publisher: Wilder Publications, 2008

Synopsis

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is both a remembrance of an intensely spiritual moment in Henry David Thoreau's life and a memoriam to his older brother who accompanied him on the trip shortly before his death. Full of fascinating literary musings and philosophical speculations, this book is a true precursor to Walden.

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About the Author

Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, and philosopher, who is best known for his works Waldena treatise about living in concert with the natural worldand Civil Disobedience, in which he espoused the need to morally resist the actions of an unjust state. Thoreau s work heavily reflects the ideologies of the American transcendentalists, and he has long been considered a leading figure in the movement along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, and, at first, Nathaniel Hawthorne (who changed his views later in life). In addition to his writing, which totaled more than twenty volumes, Thoreau was an active abolitionist, and lectured regularly against the Fugitive Slave Law. Thoreau died in 1862, and is buried along with Louisa May Alcott, Ellery Channing, and other notable Americans in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts.

Review

It's a special pleasure to have this lovely and idiosyncratic book available in audio format.The reading by Patrick Cullen is fine. --AudioFile

Cullen maintains a mild, professional tone, appropriate to Thoreaus contemplations.Much of what [Thoreau] has to say still rings true in our century, and his deep sense of time and nature transcends the ages. --KLIATT

Edition details

• Publisher: Wilder Publications
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604592974
• ISBN 13: 9781604592979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276