8 edition of A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers found in the catalog.
Published
1849
by James Munroe and Co., George P. Putnam, Lindsay and Blackiston, John Chapman in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, London
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | Henry D. Thoreau. |
| Contributions | Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, former owner., Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress), Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress) |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | F72.C5 T4 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 413 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 413 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL6996733M |
| LC Control Number | 08014408 |
Description and travel, Journeys, Gift books, Fiction, Concord River, Nonfiction, Classic Literature, Travel, History, Week on the Concord and Merrimack . A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is based on a boat trip Thoreau took with his brother in from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire. Ten years in the writing (it was the book he retired to Walden to work on) and incorporating essays, passages from his journal, and some of his best poems, it is a superbly crafted.
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers uses this trip and their relationship as the narrative's core, but the work itself moves much more broadly to discuss the changing landscape and many other topics, such as theology and ecology, that would become his bread and butter in a burgeoning writing career. Near Fine (Item #) Price: $4, The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, by Henry David Thoreau This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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John Thoreau subsequently died of lockjaw ina death which greatly affected his brother. While living at Walden Pond fromThoreau worked on the manuscript of what became "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers", and the book was first published, with little commercial/5.
This book is a record of a trip that Thoreau took with his brother, John, on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers in Although it certainly contains commentary about what the two brothers saw and did during the trip, this is hardly a travelogue. The book was written not immediately after the journey, but 7 years later, following the death of John/5(8).
This book is a record of a trip that Thoreau took with his brother, John, on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers in Although it certainly contains commentary about what the two brothers saw and did during the trip, this is hardly a travelogue.
The book was written not immediately after the journey, but 7 years later, following the death of John. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod book.
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Thoreau's classic A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is published now as a new paperback edition and includes an introduction by noted writer John McPhee. This work—unusual for its symbolism and structure, its criticism of Christian institutions, and its many-layered storytelling—was Thoreau's first published book.3/5(6).
The book also critiques Christian institutions, which was again unusual for its time. Thoreau was a well-known philosopher who made longstanding contributions to natural history and modern-day environmentalism.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is divided into chapters for each day of the journey. Much of the book contains literal. The Journey Inward. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is the record of Thoreau's journey inward toward an understanding of the universal and actual journey described in the book provides a framework for Thoreau's many approaches to higher truth.
Get this from a library. A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. [Henry David Thoreau; Clifton Johnson] -- Based on an boat trip Thoreau took with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire, and back, this classic of American literature is.
A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, First Edition. Hardcover. Original green Z cloth, Binding D, no priority. BAL notes this binding only in green P. Get this from a library.
A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. [Henry David Thoreau]. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is a book by Henry David Thoreau.
It is ostensibly the narrative of a boat trip from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire, and back, that Thoreau took with his brother John in While the book may appear to be a travel journal, broken up into chapters for each day, this is deceptive.
Thoreau’s first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, is the account of a two-week boat and hiking trip he made with his brother John in Shortly thereafter, Thoreau sold the.
Based on a trip with his brother in"A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is an excellent example of Thoreau's talent for naturalistic writing. In exquisite detail Thoreau depicts the nature that surrounds him over the course of his trip. One of only two books to be published during his lifetime, Thoreau began work on "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" following his 5/5(3).
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. Product. Although its title suggests a travel narrative, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers focuses not so much on the actual two-week trip made by Henry and John Thoreau in (August 31 to September 13) as on journey into self, through nature, toward the infinite.
It is an intensely cerebral, literary, metaphorical book, both long and dense. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Henry David Thoreau Boston, First edition of Thoreau’s first book – copies published at his own expense of which only were bound - less than were sold or given away by the publisher and Thoreau, and in the remainder was returned to him whereupon he hauled it up to his attic and sarcastically bemoaned the dismal sales.
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This work — unusual for its symbolism and structure, its criticism of Christian institutions, and its many-layered storytelling — was Thoreau’s first published book.
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