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A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers
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Title Details
Running Time
14 Hrs. 30 Min.
Description
Two years after graduating with Harvard’s class of 1839, Henry David Thoreau and his brother John built a riverboat and took a leisurely trip that provides the framework for A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Yet this is not a naturalist’s handbook or a traveler’s guide. Pages of soaring description of wildlife and woodland living are merely points of departure for fiery, often exuberant polemics on the need for moral fortitude in a society based on utilitarianism. Thoreau utilizes a variety of meditative counterpoints engendered by intense contemplation of nature.
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