The Maine woods
a fully annotated edition
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Author
Contributions
- Cramer, Jeffrey S., 1955- - Contributor
Publication
2009 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
96,000 words, Guess
Page Count
384 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemainewoodsfullya00thor
- Internet Archivemainewoodsfullya0000thor
- ISBN-100300122837
- ISBN-139780300122831
- Goodreads6872479
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- LibraryThing9170942
- Library of Congress Control Number2009015161
- OCLC Control Number317471690
- Better World Books9780300122831
- Open LibraryOL23207917M
Classifications
- DDC917.4/1043
- LCCF27.P5 T43 2009
- LCCF27.P5T43 2009
Description
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.
Description
The evocative story of Thoreau's journeys through a familiar yet untouched land. As he explores Mt. Katahdin (an Indian word meaning "highest land"), Lake Chesuncook, the Allagash River, and the East Branch of the Penobscot, Thoreau muses on his own vulnerability and the humility engendered by his solitude in the wilderness.
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- Biography
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