The Maine Woods
by Henry David Thoreau, Richard F. Fleck, and Jeffrey S. Cramer
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The Maine Woods is a characteristically Thoreauvian book: a personal account of exploration, of exterior and interior discovery in a natural setting, conveyed in taut, workmanlike prose. Thoreau's evocative renderings of the life of the primitive forest--its mountains, waterways, fauna, flora, and inhabitants--are valuable in themselves. But his impassioned protest against despoilment in the name of commerce and sport, which even by the 1850s threatened to deprive Americans of the "tonic of wildness," makes The Maine Woods an especially vital book for our time. This edition presents Thoreau's fullest account of the wilderness as he intended it.
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Description and travel, Travel, American Authors, Biography, Journeys, Piscataquis Co., Me. - Description and travel, History, Nature, Nonfiction, Pictorial works, Landscapes, Low temperatures, State & Local, General, Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Regions & Countries - Americas, Descriptions et voyages, United States Local History, History & Archaeology, Philosophy, american, Maine, description and travel, Maine, Philosophy of nature, Natural history, outdoor books, Outdoor life, Philosophers, biography, Thoreau, henry david, 1817-1862, Authors, american, Authors, biography, America, history, NATURE / Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)Places
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The Maine woods: a fully annotated edition
2009, Yale University Press
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The Maine Woods: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
May 24, 2004, Princeton University Press
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The Maine woods
Publish date unknown, Perennial Library
- 1st Perennial Library ed.
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"On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on the west branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested."
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