Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Paperback)

from Menzel

I've never read such a beautiful and gentle book... In this book, writen during his time in Walden pond, Thoreau documents a boat trip he made with his brother, from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. A delightful journey immersing themselves (and the reader) fully into nature and ...

from overthemoon

An abridged version of the original, cutting out the flights of fancy and boring bits. I really like the introduction which explains in detail the fonts used (Thorowgood for display, perhaps a play on words with Thoreau?) and the sequence of illustrations: such a lot of work went into the design ...

from TheWasp

This is a wonderful, gentle book. The prose flows at the same relaxed pace as the river on which the author travels. It is full of history and nature and philosophy and documents a week when the world moved at a much slower pace.

from HarryMacDonald

This is a somewhat editied version of Thoreau's first notable book-length work, nominally celebrating a boat-trip he made with his beloved brother John, but of-course --Thoreau being what he was -- discoursing on practially everything that came into his mind, not merely on the trip, but afterward...

from Juva

This is about 20% thoughtful, evocative prose which observes the beauty of nature and relates it meaningfully to the human experience. The other 80% is random essays about completely unrelated topics. It was very unstructured and the author would just leap from recounting a sunset to deep philoso...