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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... sail over . The farm - houses along the Sudbury shore , which rises gently to a considerable height , command fine water prospects at this season . The shore is more flat on the Wayland side , and this town is the greatest loser by the ...
... sail over . The farm - houses along the Sudbury shore , which rises gently to a considerable height , command fine water prospects at this season . The shore is more flat on the Wayland side , and this town is the greatest loser by the ...
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... be the greatest breadth of beam and depth in the hold ; its fins direct where to set the oars , and the tail gives some hint for the form and position of the rudder . 6 The bird shows how to rig and trim the sails Saturday.
... be the greatest breadth of beam and depth in the hold ; its fins direct where to set the oars , and the tail gives some hint for the form and position of the rudder . 6 The bird shows how to rig and trim the sails Saturday.
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Henry David Thoreau. The bird shows how to rig and trim the sails , and what form to give to the prow that it may balance the boat and divide the air and water best . These hints we had but partially obeyed . But the eyes , though they ...
Henry David Thoreau. The bird shows how to rig and trim the sails , and what form to give to the prow that it may balance the boat and divide the air and water best . These hints we had but partially obeyed . But the eyes , though they ...
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... sails with me ; Her way like that is beautifully free , Her nature far more rare , And is her constant heart of virgin purity . " the very stars seem but this maiden's emissaries and progress . Low in the eastern sky Is set thy glancing ...
... sails with me ; Her way like that is beautifully free , Her nature far more rare , And is her constant heart of virgin purity . " the very stars seem but this maiden's emissaries and progress . Low in the eastern sky Is set thy glancing ...
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