
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Edited by Carl F. Hovde
Princeton University Press
Published on 13. June 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
624 pages
978-0-691-11878-9 (ISBN)
Description
Henry D. Thoreau's classic A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is published now as a new paperback edition and includes an introduction by noted writer John McPhee. This work--unusual for its symbolism and structure, its criticism of Christian institutions, and its many-layered storytelling--was Thoreau's first published book. In the late summer of 1839, Thoreau and his older brother John made a two-week boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, Massachusetts, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's sudden death in 1842, Thoreau began to prepare a memorial account of their excursion. He wrote two drafts of this story at Walden Pond, which he continued to revise and expand until 1849, when he arranged for its publication at his own expense. The book's heterodoxy and apparent formlessness troubled its contemporary audience. Modern readers, however, have come to see it as an appropriate predecessor to Walden, with Thoreau's story of a river journey depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth.
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Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-11878-9 (9780691118789)
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Henry David Thoreau | Carl F. Hovde | William L. Howarth
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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Henry David Thoreau | Carl F. Hovde | William L. Howarth
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
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06/1980
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John McPhee is the author of twenty-five books, including The Control of Nature, Irons in the Fire, and Annals of the Former World, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1999.
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Introduction by John McPhee ix Concord River 5 Saturday 15 Sunday 43 Monday 117 Tuesday 179 Wednesday 235 Thursday 298 Friday 334 Index 395