A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Week_on_the_Concord_and_Merrimack_Rivers Release date is 2003-07-01
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"A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" by Henry David Thoreau is a book published in 1849. It recounts a boat journey Thoreau took with his brother John in 1839, written partly as a tribute after John's death. Though structured as a travel narrative divided by days, the book weaves extensive digressions on religion, poetry, history, and the author's reflections on Industrial Revolution changes transforming New England. His first published work, it initially sold only 219 copies. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Concord River (Mass.) -- Description and travel Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.) -- Description and travel Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Travel -- Massachusetts -- Concord River Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Travel -- Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.)