A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

by Henry David Thoreau

Book Overview

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