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Thoreau's account of the 1839 river voyage he made with his brother is both a compelling travel narrative and a meditation on the meanings of time, history, and loss.
Thoreau's Week shares many themes with his classic Walden: self-renewal in nature, the spiritual meanings of perception, and the shallowness of contemporary culture, religion, and politics. But while Walden portrays a pastoral life essentially impervious to time, A Week dramatizes change and the inevitability of loss. The loss that implicitly informs the narrative, deepening its elegiac treatment of New England's past, is the tragic death of Thoreau's brother, John, only three years after the journey.
Yet, through the classic structure of departure and return, Thoreau imaginatively redeems both his personal and historical losses, as he voyages upon the stream of time. In A Week, descriptions of natural phenomena, the rural landscape, and local characters are interwoven with reflections on literature and philosophy, the Native American and Puritan histories of New England, Eastern sacred writings, the imperfections of Christianity, and many other subjects.
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Description and travel, Journeys, Gift books, Fiction, Concord River, Nonfiction, Classic Literature, Travel, History, Week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers, Thoreau, henry david, 1817-1862, Merrimack river and valley, Concord river (mass.), New hampshire, description and travel, Massachusetts, description and travel, United states, description and travel, American essays, Large type books, nature, Collected works (single author, multi-form), Fiction, generalShowing 12 featured editions. View all 93 editions?
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A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
1980, Princeton University Press
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A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers
1849, James Munroe and Co., George P. Putnam, Lindsay and Blackiston, John Chapman
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii-xxvi).
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Thoreau's first book excels at depicting nature around his trip in words.
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