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Title: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Narrator: Patrick Cullen
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-03-17
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Genres: Classics, Nonfiction

Publisher's Summary:
In 1839, two years after graduating from Harvard, Henry David Thoreau and his older brother, John, took a boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, Massachusetts, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's sudden death in 1842, Thoreau began to prepare a memorial account of their excursion during his stay at Walden Pond. Modern listeners have come to see Thoreau's story of the river journey as an appropriate predecessor to Walden, depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth.

Members Reviews:
a week on the concord and merrimac rivers
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Four Stars
It's not an easy read and isn't as interesting as Walden, but still has a lot of good content.

Impressive for first book
I am working on my first book. Would love it to be this well known.
His descriptions of the water fronts and skies make you feel peaceful.

Ramblings of a Young Transcendentalist
This book is not Walden, as another reviewer has pointed out, but it does show what the young Thoreau was thinking as he and his brother took a week-long boat trip on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. To read this book is to read the thoughts and observations and challenges of a person who is growing into himself. If you would like to see what young Transcendentalists were thinking and doing in 1839, near the very beginning of the movement that would flower in the 1840s, this book is a leisurely introduction.

A bit wordy, should we say?
I am as big a fan of Thoreau as there is (I've given 5 stars to 3 of his other books), but I am sorry, this one is just a bit too wordy. Thoreau rambles a lot in this book, there are places where a few paragraphs of descriptions of his trip are followed by pages of wandering thoughts. Maybe I am not at the point to truly appreciate his writing yet, but I do think this book does have its weakness. Written before Walden and other volumes, I think at the time Thoreau hadn't yet mastered the craft of seamlessly blending his thoughts and philosophies with narratives and descriptions. If the relative weights of the actual trip narrative and his rambling thoughts were reversed, I think this would have been a much better book (and he would have sold a few more in his lifetime too!)