
Henry D. Thoreau traveled to the backwoods of Maine in 1846, 1853, & 1857. Originally published in 1864, & published now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, this volume is a powerful telling of those journeys through a rugged & largely unspoiled l&. It presents Thoreau`s fullest account of the wilderness. ” The Maine Woods” is classic Thoreau: a personal story of exterior & interior discoveries in a natural setting
- all conveyed in taut, masterly prose. Thoreau`s evocative renderings of the life of the primitive forest
- its mountains, waterways, fauna, flora, & inhabitants
- are timeless & valuable on their own. But his impassioned protest against the despoilment of nature in the name of commerce & 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.