A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
written by Henry David Thoreau, introduction by Thomas Blanding

In the Summer of 1839, twenty-two-year-old Henry David Thoreau and his brother John went into the White Mountains of New Hampshire on a two-week hiking and boating tour. A decade later this trip would become Thoreau's first book, not just a bold tale of adventure, but a voyage into the very heart of man and his place in the natural order of things.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Alternating between observation and reflection, Thoreau interweaves day-by-day descriptions of natural phenomenon, the rural landscape, and local characters with digressions on literature and philosophy, the Native American and Puritan histories of New England, the Bhagavad-Gita, the imperfections of Christianity, and many other subjects.

An invaluable companion to Walden, it stands alone as one of the most remarkable literary achievements of the nineteenth century.

ZB0366    A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers            $10.95

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