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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... side , and this town is the greatest loser by the flood . Its farmers tell me that thousands of acres are flooded now , since the dams have been erected , where they remember to have seen the white honeysuckle or clover growing once ...
... side , and this town is the greatest loser by the flood . Its farmers tell me that thousands of acres are flooded now , since the dams have been erected , where they remember to have seen the white honeysuckle or clover growing once ...
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... side of the globe reach even to us here , as to more distant dwellers on its banks ; many a poet's stream floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom . The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain ...
... side of the globe reach even to us here , as to more distant dwellers on its banks ; many a poet's stream floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom . The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain ...
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... side , rowing so near as to agitate his cork with our oars , and drive away luck for a sea- son ; and when we had rowed a mile as straight as an arrow , with our faces turned towards him , and the bubbles in our wake still visible on ...
... side , rowing so near as to agitate his cork with our oars , and drive away luck for a sea- son ; and when we had rowed a mile as straight as an arrow , with our faces turned towards him , and the bubbles in our wake still visible on ...
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... 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 universally ...
... 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 universally ...
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... side . The spawn is exposed to so many dangers that a very small pro- portion can ever become fishes , for beside being the constant prey of birds and fishes , a great many nests are made so near the shore , in shal- low water , that ...
... side . The spawn is exposed to so many dangers that a very small pro- portion can ever become fishes , for beside being the constant prey of birds and fishes , a great many nests are made so near the shore , in shal- low water , that ...
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