A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, autobiographical narrative by Henry David Thoreau, published in 1849. This Transcendental work is a philosophical treatise couched as a travel adventure. Written mainly during the two years he lived in a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts (1845–47), A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers chronicles a boating trip Thoreau took with his brother John to the White Mountains in New Hampshire in...