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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... lives on its banks . To an extinct race it was grass - ground , where they hunted and fished , and it is still perennial grass - ground to Concord farmers , who own the Great Meadows , and get the hay from year to year . " One branch of ...
... lives on its banks . To an extinct race it was grass - ground , where they hunted and fished , and it is still perennial grass - ground to Concord farmers , who own the Great Meadows , and get the hay from year to year . " One branch of ...
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... lives ; greater men than Homer , or Chaucer , or Shakespeare , only they never got time to say so ; they never took to the way of writing . Look at their fields , and imagine what they might write , if ever they should put pen to paper ...
... lives ; greater men than Homer , or Chaucer , or Shakespeare , only they never got time to say so ; they never took to the way of writing . Look at their fields , and imagine what they might write , if ever they should put pen to paper ...
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... live by the sea - side , or by the lakes and rivers , or on the prairie , it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes , since they are not phenomena confined to certain localities only , but forms and phases of the life in nature ...
... live by the sea - side , or by the lakes and rivers , or on the prairie , it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes , since they are not phenomena confined to certain localities only , but forms and phases of the life in nature ...
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... live is a stream which must be constantly resisted . From time to time they nibble the weeds at the bottom or overhanging their nests , or dart after a fly or a worm . The dorsal fin , besides answer- ing the purpose of a keel , with ...
... live is a stream which must be constantly resisted . From time to time they nibble the weeds at the bottom or overhanging their nests , or dart after a fly or a worm . The dorsal fin , besides answer- ing the purpose of a keel , with ...
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... lives remains , that we know of , unless it be one brief page of hard but unquestionable history , which occurs in Day Book No. 4 , of an old trader of this town , long since dead , which shows pretty plainly what constituted a ...
... lives remains , that we know of , unless it be one brief page of hard but unquestionable history , which occurs in Day Book No. 4 , of an old trader of this town , long since dead , which shows pretty plainly what constituted a ...
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