Talk:A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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Has anyone actually tried to read this book? I made it through about 100 pages ... it's brutal!

Ditto. It starts out interesting and then reaaaly starts to drag. I know this isn't supposed to be a discussion forum, but I think the exhaustive nature that a book about travelling up a river turns into a play-by-play of plant life is notable ;-) CSZero (talk) 14:54, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a page-turner by any stretch, but for any fan of Thoreau it's a very good and very readable, and often beautiful, book. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.227.77.90 (talk) 22:02, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Library of Congress[edit]

Henry David Thoreau gave a copy of A Week on the Merrimack River to Walt Whitman. Whitman gave Thoreau a copy of Leaves of Grass. Both books can be found in the Library of Congress rare book collection today. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.78.127.227 (talk) 00:22, 7 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Did Thoreau really have the book self-published?[edit]

Did Thoreau really have the book self-published? I read in the Encyclopedia Brittanica that when the book sold very few copies, Thoreau's publishers dropped copies off at his accommodation. Vorbee (talk) 16:40, 16 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen a quote of Thoreau's where he said, in reference to the 700 copies of this book which didn't sell, "I have a personal library of over 1000 books, 700 of which I wrote myself." I've always found that quite hilarious! HaarFager (talk) 05:24, 7 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]