Items related to A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Penguin...

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Thoreau, Henry David

 
9780140434422: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140434429 ISBN 13: 9780140434422
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 1998

Synopsis

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 offers an alternative perspective on his analaysis of the relationship between nature and culture.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) was born in Concord Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He became a follower and a friend of Emerson, and described himself as a mystic and a transcendentalist. Although he published only two books in his lifetime, WALDEN is regarded as a literary masterpeice and one of the most significant books of the 19th century.
H. Daniel Peck has written widely on Thoreau and has edited A YEAR IN THOREAU'S JOURNAL for Penguin Classics.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0140434429
ISBN 13 
9780140434422
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
368