Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Thoreau, Henry David; Peck, H. Daniel

ISBN 10: 0140434429 / ISBN 13: 9780140434422

Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140434429
• ISBN 13: 9780140434422
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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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.

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.