The Maine Woods - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Henry David Thoreau, Edward Hoagland (Introduction by)Series:Classic, Nature, PenguinAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1988-09-01Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140170139ISBN-10:140170138UPC:9780140170139Book Category:Travel, NatureBook Subcategory:Essays & Travelogues, Essays, Environmental Conservation & ProtectionSize:7.10 x 5.32 x 1.21 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCEV09Z4HN
The Maine Woods
"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...
Series: Classic, Nature, Penguin
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140170139ISBN-10:140170138UPC:9780140170139Book Category:Travel, NatureBook Subcategory:Essays & Travelogues, Essays, Environmental Conservation & ProtectionSize:7.10 x 5.32 x 1.21 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCEV09Z4HN
Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The Transcendentalists' faith in nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for...
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