The Maine woods.
by Henry David Thoreau
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The 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.
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Edited by S. Thoreau and W.E. Channing.
First edition.
Signatures: pi⁴ A-I⁸ J⁸ K-T⁸ U⁴ chi¹².
Title page vignette (publisher's device).
Priced list of author's works facing t.p.; all are 1.25 except Week on the Concord ... is 1.50.
Printer's colophon, p. 328: Cambridge: Stereotyped and Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co.
Last 24 p. are publisher's catalog dated June 1864.
Bound in blind-stamped dark blue publisher's cloth over boards; gold-stamped spine; double end paper, the outermost brown coated papers.
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