The Maine Woods

The Maine Woods - Paperback

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The Maine Woods - Paperback

The Maine Woods - Paperback

by Henry David Thoreau
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by Henry David Thoreau (Author), Joseph J. Moldenhauer (Editor), Paul Theroux (Introduction by)

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

Author Biography

Paul Theroux is a travel writer who is widely credited with reviving the genre in 1975 with his The Great Railway Bazaar. Among his other books are the novels Chicago Loop and Mosquito Coast. He lives on Cape Cod and in Hawaii.

Number of Pages: 347
Dimensions: 0.78 x 8 x 5.08 IN
Publication Date: June 13, 2004
ISBN9780691118772
Author Henry David Thoreau
PublisherPrinceton University Press
GenreBiography
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2004
LanguageENG- English
Pages347
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Henry David Thoreau

HENRY DAVID THOREAU was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. While living at Walden Pond, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime: Walden (1854) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). Several of his other works, including The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, and Excursions, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.

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