A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers: Enriched edition. A Transcendental Journey Through Nature, Philosophy, and Reflections

Henry David Thoreau, Good Press, Graham Montrose

ISBN 10: 1604592974 / ISBN 13: 9781604592979

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers: Enriched edition. A Transcendental Journey Through Nature, Philosophy, and Reflections
• Publisher: Good Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604592974
• ISBN 13: 9781604592979
• Binding: Book
• Condition: New

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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.

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.