The Maine woods / Henry D. Thoreau ; edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer ; with an introduction by Paul Theroux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.

Contributor:

Moldenhauer, Joseph J., 1934-

Series:

Writings of Henry D. Thoreau

The writings of Henry D. Thoreau

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Piscataquis County (Me.)--Description and travel.

Piscataquis County (Me.).

Maine--Description and travel.

Maine.

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Travel--Maine.

Thoreau, Henry David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

With a New introduction by Paul Theroux

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

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 1850's threatened to deprive Americans of the "tonic of wildness," makes The Maine Woods an especially vital book for our own time.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Map of the Maine Woods

1. Introduction / Theroux, Paul

2. Ktaadn

3. Chesuncook

4. The Allegash and East Branch

Appendix

Index / Williams, Paul O.

Notes:

Originally published: Boston : Ticknor & Fields, 1864.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612639371

9781282639379

1282639374

9781400834136

1400834139

OCLC:

700687115