By Jeffrey S. Cramer
“On the thirty first of August, 1846, I left harmony in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine”—thus starts The Maine Woods, the evocative tale of Thoreau’s trips via a well-recognized but untouched land.
As he explores Mt. Katahdin (an Indian observe which means “highest land”), Lake Chesuncook, the Allagash River, and the East department of the Penobscot, Thoreau muses on his personal vulnerability and the humility engendered by means of his solitude within the desert. all through Thoreau invokes the wooded area of Maine—the mountains, waterways, fauna, flowers, and the people—in his singular kind. Echoing Walden, Thoreau’s passionate outcry opposed to the degradation of our surroundings in The Maine Woods will resonate strongly today.
This absolutely annotated reward version of The Maine Woods makes an excellent spouse quantity to Walden: an absolutely Annotated Edition and I to Myself: An Annotated choice from the magazine of Henry D. Thoreau.
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