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The Maine woods / by Henry David Thoreau ; introduction by Edward Hoagland.
LIBRA F27.P5 T43 1988 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
- Series:
- Penguin nature library
- 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.
- Maine--Piscataquis County.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 442 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 1988.
- Summary:
- With Abnaki guides, Thoreau climbed Mt. Katahdin and hiked deep into the Maine woods to places where one "might live and die and never hear of the United States". His accurate, evocative descriptions still reflect his belief that man himself is a part of the natural world.
- Notes:
- Reprint, with new introduction. Originally published: Boston : Ticknor & Fields, 1864.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0140170138
- 9780140170139
- OCLC:
- 17548885
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