The Maine Woods (illustrated)
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (523 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01HE6GLQO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 221 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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If Cape Cod tastes of salt, The Maine Woods smells of hemlock and balsam. -- Walter Harding, "The Days of Henry Thoreau"One of the most coniferous-pungent books in the English language -- Mary Sherwood, Thoreau in Our Season
MAKE SURE YOU BUY THE CORRECT EDITION Jocelyn L. This is a comment about the edition rather than the book:I bought this edition based on the review about the very helpful index. Please be careful about what edition you are actually buying. Many of these reviews are about different editions. I bought the BiblioLife paperback book with a picture of the green bicycle on the cover. I just received it and there is NO INDEX.It looks like the original text from an original printing (with smaller physical dimensions) was photocopied page by page and put into this paperback book. This will do the trick but I am. "American wilderness as it was in the 1850s" according to Martin H. Dickinson. Most people are familiar with Thoreau through his Walden. Few know perhaps that he didn't stay put in Concord but journeyed to the Maine Woods and elsewhere, and that these travels were formative of his philosophy and ideas. Thoreau believed the Maine wilderness north of Bangor was every bit as wild as the west and other far flung corners of the continent in the 1850s, and here he shows us an incredible panorama of beauty and wonder. You will gain insight into how Native Americans hunted Moose in the mid-19th Century and why Thoreau, a vegetarian, disdai. "Lovely book" according to Elyse Nicole Conde. I bought this for my Husband for his Birthday and He loves it! It's a cool way to get excited about a trip to Cape Cod.
. In addition to his writing, which totaled more than twenty volumes, Thoreau was an active abolitionist, and lectured regularly against the Fugitive Slave Law. Thoreau died in 1862, and is buried along with Louisa May Alcott, Ellery Channing, and other notable Americans in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts. Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, and philosopher, who is best known for his works Waldena treatise about living in conc
Henry D. 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. 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.Includes vintage illustration!. 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. 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 tell