A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers ; Walden, or, Life in the woods ; The Maine woods ; Cape Cod
By: Henry David Thoreau.
Series: The Library of America
Publisher: Literary Classics of the United States; Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1114
Other titles: Week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers.; Walden.; Maine woods.; Cape Cod.
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 1071-1094.
Includes index.