merrimack river (n.h. and mass.)

Presents selections from Thoreau's journals that describe the details and daily changes in the environment of his native Concord over a period of almost forty-five years.

Henry David Thoreau's four full-length works about the exploration of nature in New England from rivers in Massachusetts to woods in Maine.

Presents the full text of nineteenth-century American writer Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"; selections from "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," "Cape Cod," and "The Maine Woods"; and five significant essays by Thoreau.

Contains Henry David Thoreau's personal account of the two-week boating and hiking trip he and his older brother made in the late summer of 1839 from Concord, Massachusetts to the White Mountains of New Hampshire.