The Writings of Henry David Thoreau

The Maine Woods

Henry David Thoreau author Joseph J Moldenhauer editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Published:1st Jul '92

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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau cover

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.

ISBN: 9780691062242

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 624g

494 pages