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The Maine woods / Henry D. Thoreau ; edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer ; with an introduction by Paul Theroux.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
- Series:
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. 1971 Works.
- The writings of Henry D. Thoreau
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
- Travel.
- Piscataquis County (Me.)--Description and travel.
- Piscataquis County (Me.).
- Maine--Description and travel.
- Maine.
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Travel--Maine.
- Thoreau, Henry David.
- Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 347 pages : map ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Henry D. Thoreau traveled to the backwoods of Maine in 1846, 1853, and 1857. Originally published in 1864, and published now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, this volume is a powerful telling of those journeys through a rugged and largely unspoiled land. It presents Thoreau's fullest account of the wilderness.
- The Maine Woods is classic Thoreau: a personal story of exterior and interior discoveries in a natural setting -- all conveyed in taut, masterly prose. Thoreau's evocative renderings of the life of the primitive forest -- its mountains, waterways, fauna, flora, and inhabitants -- are timeless and valuable on their own. But his impassioned protest against the despoilment of nature 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 own time.
- Contents:
- Trees
- Flowers and shrubs
- List of plants
- List of birds
- Quadrupeds
- Outfit for an excursion
- A list of Indian words.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Boston : Ticknor & Fields, 1864.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0691118779
- 9780691118772
- OCLC:
- 55611643
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- Publisher description
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