A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is Henry David Thoreau’s reflective travel narrative that blends natural observation, philosophy, and personal memoir based on a boating trip he took with his brother.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American literature
book
nonfiction work
travel narrative
author Henry David Thoreau
authorNationality American
authorOccupation essayist
naturalist
philosopher
basedOn boating trip with John Thoreau Jr.
contains autobiographical elements
descriptions of New England rivers
historical reflections
literary criticism
philosophical digressions
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
featuresCharacter Henry David Thoreau
surface form: John Thoreau Jr.
form prose
genre memoir
nature writing
philosophical literature
travel literature
hasInfluenceOn American nature writing
environmental literature
hasPart Friday
Monday
Saturday
Sunday
Thursday
Tuesday
Wednesday
language English
literaryMovement Transcendentalism
mainCharacter Henry David Thoreau
relatedWork Walden; or, Life in the Woods
surface form: Walden
setting Concord River
Merrimack River
structure seven-day narrative
subject New England geography
boating journey
personal reflection
theme American landscape
friendship
memory
nature
philosophy
spiritual reflection
title A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers self-link

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Henry David Thoreau notableWork A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
The Maine Woods relatedWork A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers title A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers self-link
Henry David Thoreau wrote A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers