A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers
By: Henry D. Thoreau ; edited by Carl F. Hovde, William L. Howarth, and Elizabeth Hall Witherell ; with an introduction by John McPhee.
Contributors: Hovde, Carl.; Howarth, William L., 1940-; Witherell, Elizabeth Hall.; McPhee, John, 1931-; Modern Language Association of America. Center for Editions of American Authors.
Series: The writings of Henry D. Thoreau; Princeton paperbacks
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton , NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780691118789
Subjects: Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862 -- Travel -- Massachusetts -- Concord River; Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862 -- Travel -- Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.); Concord River (Mass.) -- Description and travel; Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.) -- Description and travel; Concord River Valley (Mass.) -- Description and travel; Merrimack River Valley (N.H. and Mass.) -- Description and travel
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. He wrote two drafts of this story at Walden Pond, which he continued to revise and expand until 1849, when he arranged for its publication at his own expense. The book's heterodoxy and apparent formlessness troubled its contemporary audience. Modern readers, however, have come to see it as an appropriate predecessor to Walden, with Thoreau's story of a river journey depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth.
Notes: Originally published: 1849.

"The definitive text as approved by the Center for Editions of American Authors of the Modern Language Association of America"--Cover, p. [4].

Includes index.