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Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Daniel Peck
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300061048
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Thoreau's Morning Work written by H. Daniel Peck and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden, the only works Thoreau conceived and brought to conclusion as books, bear a distinctively important relation to each other and to his Journal, the document whose twenty-four-year composition encompasses their development. In a brilliant new book, H. Daniel Peck shows how these three works engage one another dialectically and how all of them participate in a larger project of imagination. "Morning work," a phrase from Walden, is the name Peck gives to this larger project. by it he means the work done by memory and perception as they act to shape Thoreau's emerging vision of a harmonious universe. Peck argues that the changing balance of memory and perception in the three works defines the unique literary character of each of them. He offers a major reevaluation of Walden, which he sees neither as the epitome of Thoreau's career (the traditional view) nor as an anomaly (the recent, revisionary view). Rather, he sees Walden as a pivotal work, reflecting the issues of loss and remembrance that earlier had found prominent expression in A Week and prefiguring the late Journal's vision of natural order. Focusing on the two-million-word Journal, Peck provides the first critical analysis that defines the essential forces and the imaginative coherence in its vast discursiveness. The consideration of memory and perception in Thoreau also leads peck to the issue of the writer's modernity, and he explores the ways in which Thoreau anticipates twentieth-century thought, especially in the works of such great objectivist philosophers as William James and Alfred North Whitehead.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)
Download or read book A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David K. Leff
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587298392
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Deep Travel written by David K. Leff and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hot summer of 2004, David Leff floated away from the routine of daily life just as Henry David Thoreau and his brother had done in their own small boat in 1839. Fortified with Thoreau’s observations as revealed in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Leff brought his own concept of mindful deep travel to these same New England waterways. His first-person narrative uses his ecological way of looking, of going deep rather than far, to show that our outward journeys are inseparable from our inward ones. How we see depends on where we are in our lives and with whom we travel. Leff chose his companions wisely. In consecutive journeys his neighbor and friend Alan, a veteran city planner; his son Josh, an energetic eleven-year-old; and his sweetheart Pamela, a compassionate professional caregiver, added their perspectives to Leff’s own experiences as a government official in natural resources policy. Not so much sight seeing as sight seeking, together they explored a geography of the imagination as well as the rich natural and human histories of the rivers and their communities. The heightened awareness of deep travel demands that we immerse ourselves fully in places and realize that they exist in time as well as space. Its mindfulness enriches the experience and makes the voyager worthy of the journey. Leff’s intriguing, contemplative deep travel along these historic rivers presents a methodology for exploration that will enrich any trip.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395947999
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (479 download)
Download or read book Elevating Ourselves written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how Blanche Douglas Leathers studied the Mississippi River and passed the test to become a steamboat captain in 1894.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Maine Woods written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Henry David Thoreau Collection written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri David Thoreau was an American writer, philosopher, publicist, naturalist, and poet. He prominently represented American transcendentalism throughout the mid-1800s. Thoreau’s love and observations of nature played a significant role in his writings, often forming the basis for critiques on modern society. As a naturalist, he advocated for the conservation of nature. Thoreau encouraged individual, passive, non-violent as a means of resistance to public evils. He personally supported the abolitionist movement and, as much as possible, took an active interest in the fate of fugitive slaves who were sought by the police. His essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849) influenced Leo Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. Thoreau’s key ideas and observations are contained in these collected works.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Cape Cod written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393321159
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Wild Fruits written by Henry David Thoreau and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-03-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoreau presents information about the "'unnoticed wild berry whose beauty annually lends a new charm to some wild walk, '" along with what "may be considered Thoreau's last will and testament, in which he protests our desecration of the landscape, reflects on the importance of preserving wild space 'for instruction and recreation, ' and envisions a new American scripture."--Jacket.
Author : Linck C. Johnson
Publisher : Charlottesville : Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, by the University Press of Virginia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Thoreau's Complex Weave written by Linck C. Johnson and published by Charlottesville : Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, by the University Press of Virginia. This book was released on 1986 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. S. McMillin
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 158729978X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The Meaning of Rivers written by T. S. McMillin and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the continental United States, rivers serve to connect state to state, interior with exterior, the past to the present, but they also divide places and peoples from one another. These connections and divisions have given rise to a diverse body of literature that explores American nature, ranging from travel accounts of seventeenth-century Puritan colonists to magazine articles by twenty-first-century enthusiasts of extreme sports. Using pivotal American writings to determine both what literature can tell us about rivers and, conversely, how rivers help us think about the nature of literature, The Meaning of Rivers introduces readers to the rich world of flowing water and some of the different ways in which American writers have used rivers to understand the world through which these waters flow. Embracing a hybrid, essayistic form—part literary theory, part cultural history, and part fieldwork—The Meaning of Rivers connects the humanities to other disciplines and scholarly work to the land. Whether developing a theory of palindromes or reading works of American literature as varied as Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and James Dickey’s Deliverance, McMillin urges readers toward a transcendental retracing of their own interpretive encounters. The nature of texts and the nature of “nature” require diverse and versatile interpretation; interpretation requires not only depth and concentration but also imaginative thinking, broad-mindedness, and engaged connection-making. By taking us upstream as well as down, McMillin draws attention to the potential of rivers for improving our sense of place and time.
Author : David A. Van Wie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 081176821X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Storied Waters written by David A. Van Wie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storied Waters chronicles the author’s six-week odyssey from Maine to Wisconsin and back to explore and fly fish America’s most storied waters and celebrate the writers and artists who made them famous. In a 5,000-mile odyssey covering over 50 locations in eight states, Van Wie follows and fishes in the footsteps of giants from Thoreau to Hemingway, Robert Traver to Corey Ford, Louise Dickinson Rich to Aldo Leopold to Winslow Homer and many more. Storied Waters provides a virtual roadmap through 200 years of fly-fishing literature and a literal roadmap—complete with local fishing tips—to the hallowed waters of our sport. In each chapter, informative sidebars detail fishing spots, best times to fish, major hatches, and other intel. Storied Waters is a grand vicarious adventure, driving the backroads for weeks at a time exploring beautiful places, and meeting fascinating people who share a common interest. With an easy, conversational writing voice enhanced with spectacular photographs, Van Wie relates an eclectic mix of travel narrative, natural history, and fishing tips and advice, as well as a deep (but sometimes humorously irreverent) appreciation for the writers who have created such a rich legacy of stories about fishing over the past 200 years.
Author : Laura Dassow Walls
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022634469X
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Henry David Thoreau written by Laura Dassow Walls and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The author] traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and 'America was a family affair, earned by one generation and about to pass to the next.' By the time he died in 1862, at only forty-four years of age, Thoreau had witnessed the transformation of his world from a community of farmers and artisans into a bustling, interconnected commercial nation. What did that portend for the contemplative individual and abundant, wild nature that Thoreau celebrated? Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, [the author] presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist; the solitary walker who found society in nature, but also found his own nature in the society of which he was a deeply interwoven part. And, running through it all, Thoreau the passionate naturalist, who, long before the age of environmentalism, saw tragedy for future generations in the human heedlessness around him."--
Author : Brooks Atkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780594083382
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Walden and Other Writings written by Brooks Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays and Poems (LOA #124) written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 2001-04-23 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essential writings features Thoreau's poetry and essays on nature, materialism, conformity, and politics; including such works as "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Civil Disobedience," "A Winter Walk," and "Life Without Principle."
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: This is Thoreau's classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty. One of the most famous essays ever written, it came to the attention of Gandhi and formed the basis for his passive resistance movement.
