A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Unabridged)
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2.0 • 1 Rating
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- $7.99
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Publisher Description
Very similar in style to Walden, and in fact written while he stayed at Walden Pond, this account chronicles Throeau's 1830 boat trip. In it, he weaves together travel writing, essays on religion, history, and lyrical poetry, as well as his own unique philosophy.
Customer Reviews
Thoreau's "A Week..."
It is good to have this audiobook: "A Week..." is wonderful--some prefer it to "Walden." But I cannot rate this audiobook highly. The reader seems to be reading the book for the first time; he misunderstands (and thus misreads) many of Thoreau's sentences, and thus he puts the emphasis in the wrong place, misses the point, etc. Also, because the reader (it seems) knows little about Thoreau & his contexts, he mispronounces key names, places, and so on. Some of these are near-incredible blunders. The reader does not know how to pronounced Kataadn; he thinks that Billerica is pronounced BILL-ER-IKE-A (it's BILL-RICKA), etc. What the publisher of this audiobook book could & should have done was to send the recording, before releasing it, to a Thoreau scholar. That would have led to helpful suggestions and corrections, making the audiobook much better.