 | The Maine Woods: A Fully Annotated Edition Subjects: Piscataquis County (Me.) -- Description and travel; Maine -- Description and travel; Thoreau Henry David 1817–1862 -- Travel -- Maine; Authors American -- 19th century -- Biography; The Maine Woods , Thoreau's best-known book after Walden , is now available for the first time in a lavishly produced, fully annotated gift-book edition As he explores Mt. Katahdin (an Indian word meaning "highest land"), Lake Chesuncook, the Allagash River, and the East Branch of the Penobscot, Thoreau muses on his own vulnerability and the humility engendered by his solitude in the wilderness. Throughout Thoreau invokes the forest of Maine--the mountains, waterways, fauna, flora, and the people--in his singular style. Echoing Walden , Thoreau's passionate outcry against the degradation of the environment in The Maine Woods will resonate strongly today. This fully annotated gift edition of The Maine Woods makes a wonderful companion volume to Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition and I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau . Jeffrey Cramer is curator of collections, the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods. |
