A <strong>Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers</strong> an account of a boat trip Thoreautook in 1839 is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing essays ... » 

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers an account of a boat trip Thoreautook in 1839 is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing essays andlyrical poetry. Alternating between observation and reflection Thoreauinterweaves daybyday descriptions of natural phenomenon the rural landscapeand local characters with digressions on literature and philosophy the NativeAmerican and Puritan histories of New England the BhagavadGita theimperfections of Christianity and many other subjects.An invaluable companion to Walden it stands alone as one of the mostremarkable literary achievements of the nineteenth century. «