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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... trees , Supplanters of the tribe , the farmers dwell . ” - EMERSON . THE MUSKETAQUID , or Grass - ground River , though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates , did not begin to have a place in civilized history , until the fame of ...
... trees , Supplanters of the tribe , the farmers dwell . ” - EMERSON . THE MUSKETAQUID , or Grass - ground River , though probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates , did not begin to have a place in civilized history , until the fame of ...
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... trees , overrun with the grape vine , which bears fruit in its season , purple , red , white , and other grapes . Still further from the stream , on the edge of the firm land ; are seen the gray and white dwellings of the inhabitants ...
... trees , overrun with the grape vine , which bears fruit in its season , purple , red , white , and other grapes . Still further from the stream , on the edge of the firm land ; are seen the gray and white dwellings of the inhabitants ...
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... trees , that floated past , ful- filling their fate , were objects of singular interest to me , and at last I resolved to launch myself on its bosom , and float whither it would bear me . SATURDAY " Come , come , my lovely fair , A Week ...
... trees , that floated past , ful- filling their fate , were objects of singular interest to me , and at last I resolved to launch myself on its bosom , and float whither it would bear me . SATURDAY " Come , come , my lovely fair , A Week ...
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... trees . The banks had passed the height of their beauty , and some of the brighter flowers showed by their faded tints that the season was verging towards the afternoon of the year ; but this sombre tinge enhanced their sincerity , and ...
... trees . The banks had passed the height of their beauty , and some of the brighter flowers showed by their faded tints that the season was verging towards the afternoon of the year ; but this sombre tinge enhanced their sincerity , and ...
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... As they are not seen on their way down the streams , it is thought by fishermen that they never return , but waste away and die , clinging to rocks and stumps of trees for an indefinite A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 17.
... As they are not seen on their way down the streams , it is thought by fishermen that they never return , but waste away and die , clinging to rocks and stumps of trees for an indefinite A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 17.
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