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An Excursion to Canada: A Yankee's Journey Through Quebec and French Canada

An Excursion to Canada: A Yankee's Journey Through Quebec and French Canada - Hardcover

by Henry David Thoreau
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Availability:In StockContributor:Henry David ThoreauTheme:Chronological Period/1851-1899, Chronological Period/Ancient (To 499 A.D.), Cultural Region/Canadian, Topical/Civil WarPublish date:4/3/2018Pages:100
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Black Curtain PressISBN-13:9781515423072ISBN-10:1515423077UPC:9781515423072Book Category:History, Literary Collections, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:United States, Essays, History & SurveysBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.236Product ID:SCBBXPH6HX

An Excursion to Canada is Henry David Thoreau's sharp, observant account of a journey through Quebec, where travel writing becomes a meditation on language, government, national character, religion, landscape, and the limits of political authority. Thoreau made the trip with Ellery Channing and later shaped the experience into a work that is part travel narrative, part cultural criticism, and part declaration of American independence of mind. The essay was later collected as "A Yankee in Canada" in Excursions, and Project Gutenberg notes that Thoreau sent the narrative to Horace Greeley after the journey.

This is not a cheerful tourist sketch so much as Thoreau abroad: alert, sceptical, exacting, and often severe. He observes Quebec's streets, churches, military presence, French language, Catholic institutions, and imperial atmosphere with the same independence he brought to nature, politics, and conscience. For readers of Walden, Civil Disobedience, American nature writing, travel essays, Canadian history, and nineteenth-century literary nonfiction, An Excursion to Canada offers a compact but revealing example of Thoreau testing his ideas beyond Concord.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Black Curtain PressISBN-13:9781515423072ISBN-10:1515423077UPC:9781515423072Book Category:History, Literary Collections, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:United States, Essays, History & SurveysBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.236Product ID:SCBBXPH6HX
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.
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