A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: Patrick Cullen

In 1839, two years after graduating from Harvard, Henry David Thoreau and his older brother, John, took a boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, Massachusetts, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's sudden death in 1842, Thoreau began to prepare a memorial account of their excursion during his stay at Walden Pond. Modern listeners have come to see Thoreau's story of the river journey as an appropriate predecessor to Walden, depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth.

Public Domain (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Digression at its finest.

If you can hold your judgement of the author’s tone there are some great bits in here.

a voice crying in the wilderness

the narration is so-so.

but words of the soul fly past the sound of one man's mouth.

read it. listen to it. ingest it. be transformed into a new creation.

Terrible narrator

I have never heard a narrator so unable to read in a natural style. The reading is stilted, with emphasis on oddly-chosen, random-seeming words. Thoreau's beautiful writing deserves better.

Its finally over!

Every word is perfectly enunciated with boredom. Listen before you commit fourteen hours to this.