A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

by 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0140434429

ISBN13:9780140434422

Release Date:December 1998

Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group

Length:368 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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