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Deep Travel: In Thoreau's Wake on the Concord and Merrimack
Contributor(s): Leff, David K. (Author)
ISBN: 1587297892     ISBN-13: 9781587297892
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
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Product Type: Hardcover
Published: April 2009
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Annotation: In the hot summer of 2004, David Leff floated away from the routine of daily life just as Henry David Thoreau and his brother had done in their own small boat in 1839. Fortified with Thoreau's observations as revealed in "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," Leff brought his own concept of mindful deep travel to these same New England waterways. His first-person narrative uses his ecological way of looking, of going deep rather than far, to show that our outward journeys are inseparable from our inward ones.
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BISAC Categories:
- Travel | United States - Northeast - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt)
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues
Dewey: 917.427
LCCN: 2008036505
Series: American Land and Life
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" (1.05 lbs) 230 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - New England
- Geographic Orientation - New Hampshire
 
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In the hot summer of 2004, David Leff floated away from the routine of daily life just as Henry David Thoreau and his brother had done in their own small boat in 1839. Fortified with Thoreau's observations as revealed in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Leff brought his own concept of mindful deep travel to these same New England waterways. His first-person narrative uses his ecological way of looking, of going deep rather than far, to show that our outward journeys are inseparable from our inward ones.

How we see depends on where we are in our lives and with whom we travel. Leff chose his companions wisely. In consecutive journeys his neighbor and friend Alan, a veteran city planner; his son Josh, an energetic eleven-year-old; and his sweetheart Pamela, a compassionate professional caregiver, added their perspectives to Leff's own experiences as a government official in natural resources policy. Not so much sight seeing as sight seeking, together they explored a geography of the imagination as well as the rich natural and human histories of the rivers and their communities.

The heightened awareness of deep travel demands that we immerse ourselves fully in places and realize that they exist in time as well as space. Its mindfulness enriches the experience and makes the voyager worthy of the journey. Leff's intriguing, contemplative deep travel along these historic rivers presents a methodology for exploration that will enrich any trip.