| Description |
1114 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The Library of America |
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Library of America.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1071-1094) and index. |
| Contents |
A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers -- Walden; or, life in the woods -- The Maine woods -- Cape Cod. |
| Summary |
Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. "Walden" is at once a personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, manual of self-reliance, and masterpiece of style. "The Maine Woods" and "Cape Cod" portray landscapes changing irreversibly even as he wrote. The first combines close observation of the unexplored Maine wilderness with a far-sighted plea for conservation; the second is a brilliant and unsentimental account of survival on a barren peninsula in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay. |
| Subject |
Concord River (Mass.) -- Description and travel.
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Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.) -- Description and travel.
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| Added Title |
Prose works. Selections
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A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers.
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Walden.
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The Maine woods.
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Cape Cod.
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| ISBN |
0940450275 alkaline paper $27.50 |
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9780940450271 alkaline paper |
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