A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

by Henry David Thoreau

Book Overview

Based on an 1839 boat trip Thoreau took with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire, and back, this classic of American literature is not only a vivid narrative of that journey, it is also a collection of thought-provoking observations on such diverse topics as poetry, literature, and philosophy, Native American and Puritan histories of New England, friendship, sacred Eastern writings, traditional Christianity, and much...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486419320
• ISBN13: 9780486419329
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher