“A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,” Henry’s first book, rehearses their journey as a species of memorial, the fact notwithstanding that Thoreau never mentions his brother’s name. After nicking himself with a razor, John died of tetanus at the age of twenty-seven.
John was his brother’s best friend, perhaps his only close one. He and John grew up in a now long-gone dwelling thought to have been very nearby. Across Main is the house where Henry David Thoreau died. It is now the back yard of a couple named Kate Stout and Pete Funkhouser, who live at the intersection of Thoreau and Main. On the thirty-first of August, 2003, with a college roommate who has long lived in Concord, I set out in a sixteen-foot Old Town canoe at a put-in site on the Sudbury which is Thoreau scholars’ best guess as the place where the Thoreaus took off. They carried two sets of oars and a sail. The boat was fifteen feet long, styled like a dory, and new. They were bound for Hooksett, New Hampshire, about fifty-five water miles north. On the thirty-first of August, 1839, John and Henry Thoreau-brothers, aged twenty-five and twenty-two-set out from their home in Concord, Massachusetts, in a small skiff on the Sudbury River. His writings on natural history and philosophy have become two sources of modern-day environmentalism.The river's “wild and noble sights,” Thoreau wrote, are “such as they who sit in parlors never dream of.” Illustration by Edward Sorel Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher and leading transcendentalist. Thoreau paints the woods and waterways of Maine with the same loving hand that described his Walden home, and entertains with the successes and difficulties of the trip and the quirks of his companion and their guide, Joseph Polis, told with a wit and insight that can only be found in Thoreau. Thoreau's famous trip through the Maine Woods reissued to entertain, encourage, and inspire contemporary naturalists. About the Book Thoreau's famous trip through the Maine Woods reissued to entertain, encourage, and inspire contemporary naturalists.
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