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An Excursion to Canada: A Yankee's Journey Through Quebec and French Canada


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An Excursion to Canada is Henry David Thoreau's sharp, observant account of a journey through Quebec, where travel writing becomes a meditation on language, government, national character, religion, landscape, and the limits of political authority. Thoreau made the trip with Ellery Channing and later shaped the experience into a work that is part travel narrative, part cultural criticism, and part declaration of American independence of mind. The essay was later collected as "A Yankee in Canada" in Excursions, and Project Gutenberg notes that Thoreau sent the narrative to Horace Greeley after the journey.

This is not a cheerful tourist sketch so much as Thoreau abroad: alert, sceptical, exacting, and often severe. He observes Quebec's streets, churches, military presence, French language, Catholic institutions, and imperial atmosphere with the same independence he brought to nature, politics, and conscience. For readers of Walden, Civil Disobedience, American nature writing, travel essays, Canadian history, and nineteenth-century literary nonfiction, An Excursion to Canada offers a compact but revealing example of Thoreau testing his ideas beyond Concord.



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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American writer, naturalist, philosopher, surveyor, abolitionist, and one of the central figures of American Transcendentalism. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, Thoreau became closely associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and the intellectual world of New England reform, but his own work developed a sharper, more solitary, and more practical independence. He is best known for Walden, his account of simple living and moral self-reliance at Walden Pond, and Civil Disobedience, his defence of individual conscience against unjust government.Thoreau's writing joins observation and argument. Whether describing plants, rivers, seasons, walking, politics, slavery, government, or daily labour, he treats the visible world as a field for moral attention. An Excursion to Canada shows that same mind outside New England, measuring another culture and political order against his own fierce standards of freedom, language, simplicity, and independence. His work remains essential for readers of American literature, nature writing, environmental thought, travel writing, political philosophy, abolitionist literature, and nineteenth-century nonfiction.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781627556002
  • Publisher: Black Curtain Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Black Curtain Press
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 100
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Weight: 168 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1627556001
  • Publisher Date: 04 Aug 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Yankee's Journey Through Quebec and French Canada
  • Width: 127 mm


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