It describes several trips he made to Cape Cod between 18. (197 pages)įive-part description of Thoreau's 1850 trip to Canada: Concord to Montreal, Quebec and Montmorenci, St Anne, River St.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers »Ī narrative of a boating trip that Thoreau took with his brother in 1839 from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire.The Maine Woods (1864), Cape Cod (1865) and A Yankee in Canada (1866) were published after his death. His first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, released in 1849, was also written during his time at Walden, as a memorial to his late brother John.During his lifetime Thoreau published two books - A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) and Walden or, Life in the Woods (1854). Later shortened to Walden, per Thoreau’s request, it was one of just two full-length books published by the author (though he published shorter works including the notable essay “ Civil Disobedience”). The initial print run was 2,000 copies, with each book priced at $1, and took five years to sell out. Thoreau farmed the land, eating and selling his crops, which included beans, potatoes, corn, peas and turnips, made frequent trips into town (including to see his mother, who lived up the road) and entertained visitors. His only income came from the labor of his own hands.
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived,” he wrote. He built the simple 10-by-15-foot cabin along the shore of the 62-acre pond, a mile from the nearest neighbor, on land owned by his friend, poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau was a 27-year-old Harvard graduate when he moved to Walden. The book explores Thoreau’s views on nature, politics and philosophy. The American transcendentalist writer’s work is a first-person account of his experimental time of simple living at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, starting in 1845, for two years and two months.
But when it was first published-on August 9, 1854-it sold just around 300 copies a year. Henry David Thoreau’s classic Walden, or, A Life in the Woods is required reading in many classrooms today.
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