THE MAINE WOODS
by THOREAU, Henry David
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Contents clean. Spine pleasantly sunned, tips a bit frayed, gilt clear. Near Fine and scarce in this condition
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
About THE MAINE WOODS, Dave Foreman, Earth-First eco-warrior/author, has written that it is "Thoreau's finest book, far deeper and more important than WALDEN ... on his two trips into the deep Maine wilderness [Thoreau] had the epiphany that enabled him to realize that 'in wildness is the preservation of the world.' MAINE not WALDEN changed American intellectual history."
Synopsis
"What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone!...Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature." Henry David Thoreau Over a period of three years, Thoreau made three trips to the largely unexplored woods of Maine. He climbed mountains, paddled a canoe by moonlight, and dined on cedar beer, hemlock tea and moose lips. Taking notes constantly, Thoreau was just as likely to turn his observant eye to the habits and languages of the Abnaki Indians or the arduous life of the logger as he was to the workings of nature. He acutely observed the rivers, lakes, mountains, wolves, moose, and stars in the dark sky. He also told of nights sitting by the campfire, and of meeting men who communicated with each other by writing on the trunks of trees. In The Maine Woods , Thoreau captured a wilder side of America and revealed his own adventurous spirit.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015689
- Title
- THE MAINE WOODS
- Author
- THOREAU, Henry David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Contents clean. Spine pleasantly sunned, tips a bit frayed, gilt clear. Near Fine and scarce in this condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1864
- Keywords
- First Editions, Natural History, New England, 19th Century Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century American Literature; Americana; Henry David Thoreau;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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