A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
(Paperback, Revised edition)
Publishing Details
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
By (Author) Henry David Thoreau
Edited by Carl F. Hovde
Edited by William L. Howarth
Edited by Elizabeth Hall Witherell
Introduction by John McPhee
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
24th August 2004
Revised edition
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Nature and the natural world: general interest
917.4272043
Physical Properties
Paperback
624
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
454g
Description
In the late summer of 1839, Thoreau and his older brother John made a two-week boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, Massachusetts, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's sudden death in 1842, Thoreau began to prepare a memorial account of their excursion, and he arranged for its publication at his own expense in 1849. This book's heterodoxy and apparent formlessness troubled its contemporary audience. Modern readers, however, have come to see A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers as an appropriate predecessor to Walden, with Thoreau's story of a river journey depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth.
Author Bio
John McPhee is the author of twenty-five books, including "The Control of Nature, Irons in the Fire", and "Annals of the Former World", for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1999.
