The Nature Books of Henry David Thoreau – 6 Titles in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)
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"A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is a narrative of a 2 week boat trip from Concord, Massachusetts, down the Concord River to the Middlesex Canal, to the Merrimack River, up to Concord, New Hampshire, and back, taken by Thoreau and his brother John. It covers diverse topics such as religion, poetry, and history, which Thoreau relates to his own life experiences. "Walden" details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built in the woods near Walden Pond, Massachusetts. The book is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. "The Maine Woods" is a collection of accounts of 3 different trips Thoreau took to wilds of Maine, unified by his increasing fascination with the primitive world and the «wild,» both environmental and psychological. "Cape Cod" is an account based on a few trips Thoreau took to Cape Cod. It depicts a journey through the dismal, deserted, unpopulated wasteland that was Cape Cod in the early 1850s, describing both the landscape and the rugged people who lived in it. "A Yankee in Canada" is an excursion book about Thoreau's journey to the region of Montréal and Québec in the Fall of 1850. "Canoeing" in the Wilderness is the record of the canoe trip through Main Woods. It is vast tract of almost virgin woodland, peopled only with a few loggers and pioneer farmers, Indians, and wild animals. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
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Henry David Thoreau. The Nature Books of Henry David Thoreau – 6 Titles in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)
The Nature Books of Henry David Thoreau – 6 Titles in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)
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Table of Contents
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Concord River
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
ANTIGONE
ISMENE
ANTIGONE
Rumors from an Aeolian Harp
Tuesday
ANACREON
ON HIS LYRE
TO A SWALLOW
ON A SILVER CUP
ON HIMSELF
TO A DOVE
ON LOVE
ON WOMEN
ON LOVERS
TO A SWALLOW
TO A COLT
CUPID WOUNDED
Wednesday
THE ATLANTIDES
THE INWARD MORNING
Thursday
AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS
Friday
THE POET'S DELAY
Walden (Life in the Woods)
Economy
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Reading
Sounds
Solitude
Visitors
The Bean–Field
The Village
The Ponds
Baker Farm
Higher Laws
Brute Neighbors
House–Warming
Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors
Winter Animals
The Pond in Winter
Spring
Conclusion
The Maine Woods
Ktaadn
Chesuncook
The Allegash and East Branch
Appendix
I. Trees
II. Flowers and Shrubs
III. List of Plants
IV. List of Birds
V. Quadrupeds
VI. Outfit for an Excursion
VII. A List of Indian Words
Footnotes
Cape Cod
Introduction
I. The Shipwreck
II. Stage Coach Views
III. The Plains of Nauset
IV. The Beach
V. The Wellfleet Oysterman
VI. The Beach Again
VII. Across the Cape
VIII. The Highland Light
IX. The Sea and the Desert
X. Provincetown
A Yankee in Canada
Chapter I. Concord to Montreal
Chapter II. Quebec and Montmorenci
Chapter III. St. Anne
Chapter IV. The Walls of Quebec
Chapter V. The Scenery of Quebec; And the River St. Lawrence
Canoeing in the Wilderness
Introduction
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MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY JULY 20-23, 1857
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FRIDAY, JULY 24
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SATURDAY, JULY 25
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SUNDAY, JULY 26
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MONDAY, JULY 27
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TUESDAY, JULY 28
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 29
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THURSDAY, JULY 30
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FRIDAY, JULY 31
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SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY AUGUST 1-3