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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

 

VI.Thoreau''s Boat-landing_[WWP]_detail
Thoreau’s boat-landing, Concord (Photographer: Herbert Gleason, from The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, 1906)


Table of Contents

  • Title Page and Publisher's Advertisement
  • Biographical Sketch by R.W. Emerson
  • Introductory Note
  • Concord River
  • Saturday
  • Sunday
  • Monday
  • Tuesday
  • Wednesday
  • Thursday
  • Friday
  • Table of Poetical Quotations
  • Index

 
 

 

Quotation

What is the great attraction in cities? It is universally admitted that human beings invariably degenerate there and do not propagate their kind. Yet the prevailing tendency is to the city life, whether we move to Boston or stay in Concord.—Journal, 1845-1846

 
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