A Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversCosimo, Inc., 01/01/2009 - 268 páginas Hero to environmentalists and ecologists, and a profound thinker on humanity's happiness, Henry David Thoreau was one of the strongest shapers of the American character in the 19th century. This 1849 book, written while Thoreau was living at Walden Pond, is ostensibly a travel book, written to commemorate an 1839 river journey he took with his brother, John, from Massachusetts to New Hampshire. But the trip is only the framework upon which Thoreau hangs some of his most provocative thoughts on poetry, history, religion, dreams, and the passing of a slower way of life with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the evidence of which he witnessed from the rivers. While not Thoreau's best-known work, *A Week* may be his most important, a beautifully determined attempt to understand the past and reconcile it with the future that continues to move readers today. Writer and philosopher HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard University. His writings on human nature, materialism, and the natural world rank him among the most influential thinkers of American literature. |
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... brooks , and farm - houses , and barns , and hay - stacks , you never saw before , and men everywhere , Sudbury , that is Southborough men , and Wayland , and Nine - Acre - Corner mẹn , and Bound Rock , where four towns bound on a rock ...
... brooks , and farm - houses , and barns , and hay - stacks , you never saw before , and men everywhere , Sudbury , that is Southborough men , and Wayland , and Nine - Acre - Corner mẹn , and Bound Rock , where four towns bound on a rock ...
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... receptacle . They are so greedy and impetuous that they are frequently caught by being entangled in the line the moment it is cast . Fishermen also distinguish the brook pickerel , a shorter and thicker. 16 Henry David Thoreau.
... receptacle . They are so greedy and impetuous that they are frequently caught by being entangled in the line the moment it is cast . Fishermen also distinguish the brook pickerel , a shorter and thicker. 16 Henry David Thoreau.
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Henry David Thoreau. also distinguish the brook pickerel , a shorter and thicker fish than the former . The Homed ... brooks , or , like the red chivins , are jerked out by a hook fastened firmly to the end of a stick and placed under ...
Henry David Thoreau. also distinguish the brook pickerel , a shorter and thicker fish than the former . The Homed ... brooks , or , like the red chivins , are jerked out by a hook fastened firmly to the end of a stick and placed under ...
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... brooks in quest of the classical trout and the minnows . Of the last alone , according to M. Agassiz , several of the species found in this town are yet undescribed . These would , perhaps , complete the list of our finny contemporaries ...
... brooks in quest of the classical trout and the minnows . Of the last alone , according to M. Agassiz , several of the species found in this town are yet undescribed . These would , perhaps , complete the list of our finny contemporaries ...
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