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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... Indian rivulet Winds mindful still of sannup and of squaw , Whose pipe and arrow oft the plough unburies , Here , in pine houses , built of new - fallen trees , Supplanters of the tribe , the farmers dwell . ” - EMERSON . THE ...
... Indian rivulet Winds mindful still of sannup and of squaw , Whose pipe and arrow oft the plough unburies , Here , in pine houses , built of new - fallen trees , Supplanters of the tribe , the farmers dwell . ” - EMERSON . THE ...
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... Indians . For the most part , it creeps through broad meadows , adorned with scattered oaks , where the cranberry is ... Indian warrior , making haste from the high places of the earth to its ancient reservoir . The murmurs of many a ...
... Indians . For the most part , it creeps through broad meadows , adorned with scattered oaks , where the cranberry is ... Indian warrior , making haste from the high places of the earth to its ancient reservoir . The murmurs of many a ...
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... Indians , who taught this method to the whites , by whom they were used as food and as manure , until the dam , and after- ward the canal at Billerica , and the factories at Lowell , put an end to their migrations hitherward ; though it ...
... Indians , who taught this method to the whites , by whom they were used as food and as manure , until the dam , and after- ward the canal at Billerica , and the factories at Lowell , put an end to their migrations hitherward ; though it ...
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... Indians tell us of a beautiful River lying far to the south , which they call Merrimac . " SIEUR DE MONTS . Relations of the Jesuits , 1604 . IN THE morning the river and adjacent country were covered with a dense fog , through which ...
... Indians tell us of a beautiful River lying far to the south , which they call Merrimac . " SIEUR DE MONTS . Relations of the Jesuits , 1604 . IN THE morning the river and adjacent country were covered with a dense fog , through which ...
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... Indians , of which we had read ; and now the bank slightly raised was overhung with graceful grasses and various species of brake , whose downy stems stood closely grouped and naked as in a vase , while their heads spread several feet ...
... Indians , of which we had read ; and now the bank slightly raised was overhung with graceful grasses and various species of brake , whose downy stems stood closely grouped and naked as in a vase , while their heads spread several feet ...
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