The Maine woods

By Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer, Richard F. Fleck

Subjects: NATURE / Essays, Maine, Piscataquis Co., Me. - Description and travel, Biography, Philosophy of nature, American Authors, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Authors, american, Authors, biography, Nonfiction, Outdoor life, State & Local, Maine, description and travel, Journeys, General, Nature, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Philosophy, american, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT), History & Archaeology, Pictorial works, Regions & Countries - Americas, Low temperatures, Landscapes, Personal Memoirs, America, history, Thoreau, henry david, 1817-1862, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, History, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary, Natural history, outdoor books, Travel, United States Local History, Philosophers, biography

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.