A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
"A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" by Henry David Thoreau is a book published in 1849. It recounts a boat journey Thoreau took with his brother John in 1839, written partly as a tribute after John's death. Though structured as a travel narrative divided by days, the book weaves extensive digressions on religion, poetry, history, and the author's reflections on Industrial Revolution changes transforming New England. His first published work,
it initially sold only 219 copies. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 |
|---|---|
| Title | A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Week_on_the_Concord_and_Merrimack_Rivers |
| Credits | Charles Franks, Carlo Traverso and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 69.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | F001: United States local history: New England |
| Subject | Concord River (Mass.) -- Description and travel |
| Subject | Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.) -- Description and travel |
| Subject | Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Travel -- Massachusetts -- Concord River |
| Subject | Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Travel -- Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.) |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 4232 |
| Release Date | Jul 1, 2003 |
| Most Recently Updated | Feb 10, 2022 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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