In the late summer of 1839 Thoreau and his elder brother John
made a two-week boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, Massachusetts,
to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's sudden death
in 1842, Henry began to prepare a memorial account of their
excursion. At Walden Pond he wrote two drafts of this story, which
he continued to revise and expand until 1849, when he arranged for
its publication at his own expense. The contemporary audience for A
Week was troubled by its heterodoxy and apparent formlessness; but
modern readers have come to see it as an appropriate predecessor to
Walden, with Thoreau's story of a river journey actually depicting
the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth.
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