A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Informationen zum Autor John McPhee is the author of many 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. Klappentext Thoreau's first published book--the story of a river journey depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth--is now published as a new paperback edition and includes an introduction by noted writer John McPhee. Zusammenfassung In the late summer of 1839, Thoreau and his older brother John made a two-week boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's death in 1842, Thoreau began to prepare a memorial account of their excursion. This is the story of a river journey depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction by John McPhee ix Concord River 5 Saturday 15 Sunday 43 Monday 117 Tuesday 179 Wednesday 235 Thursday 298 Friday 334 Index 395

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• Authors: Henry Thoreau, Henry D. Thoreau
• Assisted by: Carl Hovde (Editor), Carl F Hovde (Editor), Carl F. Hovde (Editor), Hovde Carl F. (Editor), William Howarth (Editor), William L Howarth (Editor), William L. Howarth (Editor), Howarth William L. (Editor), Elizabeth Witherell (Editor), Elizabeth Hall Witherell (Editor), Witherell Elizabeth Hall (Editor), John Mcphee (Introduction)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.06.2004
• EAN: 9780691118789
• ISBN: 978-0-691-11878-9
• No. of pages: 440
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 205 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Princeton Classic Editions; Writings of Henry D. Thoreau; Princeton Classic Editions; Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Nature; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; NATURE / General, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, TRAVEL / United States / Northeast / General, natural history, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Classic Travel Writing, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, US Northeast