A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Author : Henry David Thoreau
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Page : 416 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Concord River (Mass.)
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Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Concord River (Mass.)
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Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,96 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Concord River
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Author : Henry David Thoreau
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Page : 468 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 1862
Category : Concord River (Mass.)
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Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 11,98 MB
Release : 1897
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Author : H. Daniel Peck
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 1994-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300061048
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden, the only works Thoreau conceived and brought to conclusion as books, bear a distinctively important relation to each other and to his Journal, the document whose twenty-four-year composition encompasses their development. In a brilliant new book, H. Daniel Peck shows how these three works engage one another dialectically and how all of them participate in a larger project of imagination. "Morning work," a phrase from Walden, is the name Peck gives to this larger project. by it he means the work done by memory and perception as they act to shape Thoreau's emerging vision of a harmonious universe. Peck argues that the changing balance of memory and perception in the three works defines the unique literary character of each of them. He offers a major reevaluation of Walden, which he sees neither as the epitome of Thoreau's career (the traditional view) nor as an anomaly (the recent, revisionary view). Rather, he sees Walden as a pivotal work, reflecting the issues of loss and remembrance that earlier had found prominent expression in A Week and prefiguring the late Journal's vision of natural order. Focusing on the two-million-word Journal, Peck provides the first critical analysis that defines the essential forces and the imaginative coherence in its vast discursiveness. The consideration of memory and perception in Thoreau also leads peck to the issue of the writer's modernity, and he explores the ways in which Thoreau anticipates twentieth-century thought, especially in the works of such great objectivist philosophers as William James and Alfred North Whitehead.
Author : Linck C. Johnson
Publisher : Charlottesville : Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, by the University Press of Virginia
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Concord River (Mass.)
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Author : David K. Leff
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 2009-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1587298392
In the hot summer of 2004, David Leff floated away from the routine of daily life just as Henry David Thoreau and his brother had done in their own small boat in 1839. Fortified with Thoreau’s observations as revealed in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Leff brought his own concept of mindful deep travel to these same New England waterways. His first-person narrative uses his ecological way of looking, of going deep rather than far, to show that our outward journeys are inseparable from our inward ones. How we see depends on where we are in our lives and with whom we travel. Leff chose his companions wisely. In consecutive journeys his neighbor and friend Alan, a veteran city planner; his son Josh, an energetic eleven-year-old; and his sweetheart Pamela, a compassionate professional caregiver, added their perspectives to Leff’s own experiences as a government official in natural resources policy. Not so much sight seeing as sight seeking, together they explored a geography of the imagination as well as the rich natural and human histories of the rivers and their communities. The heightened awareness of deep travel demands that we immerse ourselves fully in places and realize that they exist in time as well as space. Its mindfulness enriches the experience and makes the voyager worthy of the journey. Leff’s intriguing, contemplative deep travel along these historic rivers presents a methodology for exploration that will enrich any trip.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780395947999
Describes how Blanche Douglas Leathers studied the Mississippi River and passed the test to become a steamboat captain in 1894.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
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Page : 524 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 1906
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Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : anboco
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3736412649
The Maine Woods was the second volume collected from his writings after Thoreau's death. Of the material which composed it, the first two divisions were already in print. "Ktaadn and the Maine Woods" was the title of a paper printed in 1848 in The Union Magazine, and "Chesuncook" was published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1858. The book was edited by his friend William Ellery Channing. It was during his second summer at Walden that Thoreau made his first visit to the Maine woods. It was probably in response to a request from Horace Greeley that he wrote out the narrative from his journal, for Mr. Greeley had shown himself eager to help Thoreau in putting his wares on the market. In a letter to Emerson, January 12, 1848, Thoreau writes: "I read a part of the story of my excursion to Ktaadn to quite a large audience of men and boys, the other night, whom it interested. It contains many facts and some poetry." He offered the paper to Greeley at the end of March, and on the 17th of April Greeley responded: "I inclose you $25 for your article on Maine scenery, as promised. I know it is worth more, though I have not yet found time to read it; but I have tried once to sell it without success. It is rather long for my columns, and too fine for the million; but I consider it a cheap bargain, and shall print it myself if I do not dispose of it to better advantage. You will not, of course, consider yourself x under any sort of obligation to me, for my offer was in the way of business, and I have got more than the worth of my money." But this generous, high-minded friend was thinking of Thoreau's business, not his own, for in October of the same year he writes, "I break a silence of some duration to inform you that I hope on Monday to receive payment for your glorious account of 'Ktaadn and the Maine Woods,' which I bought of you at a Jew's bargain and sold to The Union Magazine...