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.
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