| The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Maine Woods Contributor(s): Thoreau, Henry David (Author), Moldenhauer, Joseph J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0691062242 ISBN-13: 9780691062242 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $135.63 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1972 Annotation: The Maine Woods is a characteristically Thoreauvian book: a personal account of exploration, of exterior and interior discovery in a natural setting, conveyed on taut, workmanlike prose. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Nature | Essays |
| Dewey: 917.410 |
| LCCN: 73181875 |
| Series: His the Writings of Henry D. Thoreau |
| Physical Information: 1.44" H x 5.34" W x 8.22" (1.41 lbs) 494 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - Maine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |