| A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Contributor(s): Thoreau, Henry David (Author), Cullen, Patrick (Read by) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0786158719 ISBN-13: 9780786158713 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: June 2001 Annotation: Two years after graduating from Harvard, Henry David Thoreau built a small riverboat and took a leisurely trip to the White Mountains in New Hampshire. He wrote to describe what he saw, but took advantage of the scenes to digresses into philosophy, history, literature, religion, and more. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Nature | Essays - Travel | United States - Midwest - General |
| Dewey: 917.427 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 7.46" (0.23 lbs) |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - New Hampshire - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Midwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1839, two years after graduating from Harvard, Henry David Thoreau and his older brother, John, took a 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 during his stay at Walden Pond. Modern readers have come to see Thoreau's story of the river journey as an appropriate predecessor to Walden, depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth. "Just as the current of the stream bears along the boat with Thoreau and his brother, so the current of ideas in his mind bears along the reader by evoking the joy and nostalgia that Thoreau feels for those lost, golden days. As Thoreau says, human life is very much like a river running always downward to the sea, and in this book we enter for a moment the flow of Thoreau's unique existence."--Masterplots |
Contributor Bio(s): Thoreau, Henry David: - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, naturalist, philosopher, and poet. Born at Concord, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, he began his career as a teacher. Through his older friend and neighbor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, he became a part of the Transcendentalist circle and one of that group's most eloquent spokespersons. He is best known for his book, Walden, and his essay, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience." Cullen, Patrick: -Patrick Cullen (a.k.a. John Lescault), a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. He lives in Washington, DC, where he works in theater. |