A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Henry David Thoreau  (автор)

Мека корица, джобен формат  |  341 стр.  |  206 гр.

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На задната корица:

Composed largely at Walden Pond from early journals and notes of a trip made with his brother some years earlier, Henry Thoreau's apprentice work wholly reveals his life-obsession with the theme of self-sufficiency. Pages of soaring de­scription of wildlife and woodland living are merely points of departure for fiery, often exu­berant polemics on the need for moral fortitude in a society based on utilitarianism. Platonic ideals and mutability, the Bhagavad-Gita and Christian dogma, highly personal notes on eco-mics and satire, are only a few of the meditative counterpoints engendered by intense contempla­tion of nature. Throughout this rebellious tract filled with hyperboles of youth emerging into manhood, Thoreau implicitly voices his refusal to live out a life of "quiet desperation." America's foremost example of the free spirit, he stands in every sense, as Emerson described him, "a bach­elor of nature."

FOREWORD BY DENHAM SUTCLIFFE