The Maine Woods
(Paperback, Revised edition)
Publishing Details
The Maine Woods
By (Author) Henry David Thoreau
Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer
Introduction by Paul Theroux
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
24th August 2004
Revised edition
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Nature and the natural world: general interest
917.412043
Physical Properties
Paperback
376
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
369g
Description
Henry D. Thoreau traveled to the backwoods of Maine in 1846, 1853, and 1857. Originally published in 1864, 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. His 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 Bio
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.
