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Product Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-100691062242
ISBN-139780691062242
eBay Product ID (ePID)993598
Product Key Features
Number of Pages494 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWritings of Henry David Thoreau : the Maine Woods
Publication Year1972
SubjectPersonal Memoirs, History & Surveys / Modern
TypeTextbook
AuthorHenry David. Thoreau
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Biography & Autobiography
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight22.6 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN73-181875
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal974.1/25
SynopsisThe 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.
LC Classification NumberF27.P5T43 1972
