A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers - Paperback

Name: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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Availability:In StockContributor:Henry David Thoreau, H. Daniel Peck (Introduction by), H. Daniel Peck (Notes by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1998-12-01Pages:368

Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140434422ISBN-10:140434429UPC:9780140434422Book Category:Travel, NatureBook Subcategory:Essays & Travelogues, EssaysSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCCFQBXJ6E

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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140434422ISBN-10:140434429UPC:9780140434422Book Category:Travel, NatureBook Subcategory:Essays & Travelogues, EssaysSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCCFQBXJ6E

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.

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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Henry David Thoreau, H. Daniel Peck (Introduction by), H. Daniel Peck (Notes by)

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Henry David Thoreau

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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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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.

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Contributor(s)

Henry David Thoreau, H. Daniel Peck (Introduction by), H. Daniel Peck (Notes by)

Author

Henry David Thoreau

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