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100 1 $aThoreau, Henry David,$d1817-1862.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095600
245 12 $aA week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers /$cHenry David Thoreau ; with an introduction and notes by H. Daniel Peck.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Books,$c1998.
300 $axxvii, 335 pages :$bmaps ;$c20 cm.
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490 1 $aPenguin classics
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. xxiii-xxvi).
520 $aThoreau'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.
520 8 $aThoreau'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.
520 8 $aYet, 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.
651 0 $aConcord River (Mass.)$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aMerrimack River (N.H. and Mass.)$xDescription and travel.
600 10 $aThoreau, Henry David,$d1817-1862$xTravel$zMassachusetts$zConcord River.
600 10 $aThoreau, Henry David,$d1817-1862$xTravel$zMerrimack River (N.H. and Mass.)
700 1 $aPeck, H. Daniel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88022041
830 0 $aPenguin classics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42742214
852 00 $bglx$hF72.M7$iT5 1998