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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

by Henry David Thoreau

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A fortnight’s rowing compressed into seven days, and a frame for everything Thoreau was thinking about in his twenties: friendship, the Hindu scriptures, Chaucer, the fish of the river, the ruined mills. He published it himself, sold almost none of it, and it is the seedbed of Walden.

Thoreau’s first book, written in grief for his brother. Download the free EPUB.

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