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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Thoreau, Henry David
Hovde, Carl F.
Howarth, William L.

Paperback

Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, Book 31

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ISBN10: 0691118787
ISBN13: 9780691118789
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Jun 13 2004
Pages: 624
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.99 Width: 5.08 Depth: 7.94
Language: English

Thoreau's classic account of a river journey depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth

This paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers features an invaluable introduction by noted writer John McPhee. Unusual for its symbolism and structure, its criticism of Christian institutions, and its many-layered storytelling, this classic work was Thoreau's first published book.

In the late summer of 1839, Thoreau and his older brother John made a two-week boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, Massachusetts, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's sudden death in 1842, Thoreau began to prepare a memorial account of their excursion. He wrote two drafts of this story at Walden Pond, which he continued to revise and expand until 1849, when he arranged for its publication at his own expense. The book's heterodoxy and apparent formlessness troubled its contemporary audience, but modern readers have come to see it as an appropriate predecessor to Walden.

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