| Canoeing in the Wilderness Contributor(s): Thoreau, Henry David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1502310899 ISBN-13: 9781502310897 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval - Nature |
| Physical Information: 0.19" H x 7.44" W x 9.69" (0.39 lbs) 90 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: I started on my third excursion to the Maine woods Monday, July 20, 1857, with one companion, arriving at Bangor the next day at noon. The succeeding morning, a relative of mine who is well acquainted with the Penobscot Indians took me in his wagon to Oldtown to assist me in obtaining an Indian for this expedition. We were ferried across to the Indian Island in a bateau. The ferryman's boy had the key to it, but the father, who was a blacksmith, after a little hesitation, cut the chain with a cold chisel on the rock. He told me that the Indians were nearly all gone to the seaboard and to Massachusetts, partly on account of the smallpox, of which they are very much afraid, having broken out in Oldtown. The old chief Neptune, however, was there still. |