The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

by Henry David Thoreau, Carl F. Hovde (Editor), William L. Howarth (Editor), Elizabeth Hall Witherell (Editor)

Overview

In the late summer of 1839 Thoreau and his elder 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, Henry began to prepare a memorial account of their excursion. At Walden Pond he wrote two drafts of this story, which he continued to revise and expand until 1849, when he arranged for its publication at his own expense. The contemporary audience for A Week was troubled by its heterodoxy and apparent formlessness; but modern readers have come to see it as an appropriate predecessor to Walden, with Thoreau's story of a river journey actually depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691063768
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	06/21/1980
Series:	Writings of Henry D. Thoreau Series
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Date of Birth:

July 12, 1817

Date of Death:

May 6, 1862

Place of Birth:

Concord, Massachusetts

Place of Death:

Concord, Massachusetts

Education:

Concord Academy, 1828-33); Harvard University, 1837

Table of Contents

	Introduction	ix
	Concord River	5
	Saturday	15
	Sunday	43
	Monday	117
	Tuesday	179
	Wednesday	235
	Thursday	298
	Friday	334
	Index	395