The Maine woods

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.

subjects: Description and travel,  Travel,  American Authors,  Biography,  Journeys,  Piscataquis Co., Me. - Description and travel,  History,  Nature,  Nonfiction,  Pictorial works,  Landscapes,  Low temperatures,  State & Local,  General,  Personal Memoirs,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Regions & Countries - Americas,  Descriptions et voyages,  United States Local History,  History & Archaeology,  Philosophy, american,  Maine, description and travel,  Maine,  Philosophy of nature,  Natural history, outdoor books,  Outdoor life,  Philosophers, biography,  Thoreau, henry david, 1817-1862,  Authors, american,  Authors, biography,  America, history,  NATURE / Essays,  LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays,  TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary,  HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT),  United states, history

People: Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Places: Maine,  Piscataquis County (Me.)

Times: 19th century