A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0486419320 ISBN13: 9780486419329 Release Date: November 2001 Publisher: Dover Publications Length: 272 Pages Weight: 0.45 lbs. Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.2" Age Range: 14 years and up Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher Based on an 1839 boat trip Thoreau took with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire, and back, this classic of American literature is not only a vivid narrative of that journey, it is also a collection of thought-provoking observations on such diverse topics as poetry, literature, and philosophy, Native American and Puritan histories of New England, friendship, sacred Eastern writings, traditional Christianity, and much more.Written, like Walden, while Thoreau lived at Walden Pond, and published in 1849, A Week (his first book) shares many themes with Walden, published in 1854. Both dramatize the process of self-renewal in nature and resolutely rail against the official cultur