The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Maine Woods
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Publishing Details
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Maine Woods
By (Author) Henry David Thoreau
Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th September 1972
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
917.41043
Physical Properties
Hardback
494
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
624g
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.
