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| Thoreau: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod | | Author: | Henry David Thoreau | ISBN: | 0940450275 | Format: | Handover | Publish Date: | June, 2005 | | | | | | | | | Book Review | | |
Book Description Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here for the first time in a single volume. Subtly 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," one of America's great books, 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.
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About the Author Robert F. Sayre, editor of this volume, is professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is the author of several studies of American literature, including "Thoreau and the American Indians."
Thoreau: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod FROM THE PUBLISHER The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.
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