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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa blanda

Thoreau, Henry David

 
9780691118789: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) [Idioma Inglés]
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ISBN 10: 0691118787 ISBN 13: 9780691118789
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 2004

Sinopsis

Henry D. Thoreau's classic A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is published now as a new paperback edition and includes an introduction by noted writer John McPhee. This work--unusual for its symbolism and structure, its criticism of Christian institutions, and its many-layered storytelling--was Thoreau's first published book. 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.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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John McPhee is the author of twenty-five 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.

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Editorial
Princeton University Press
Año de publicación
2004
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0691118787
ISBN 13 
9780691118789
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
624
Editor
Hovde Carl F., Howarth William L., Witherell Elizabeth Hall
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