Canoeing in the Wilderness

by Henry David Thoreau

Overview

Thoreau’s famous trip through the Maine Woods reissued to entertain, encourage, and inspire contemporary naturalists.

Thoreau paints the woods and waterways of Maine with the same loving hand that described his Walden home, and entertains with the successes and difficulties of the trip and the quirks of his companion and their guide, Joseph Polis, told with a wit and insight that can only be found in Thoreau.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781423649144
Publisher:	Smith, Gibbs Publisher
Publication date:	03/06/2018
Series:	Wilderness
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher and leading transcendentalist. His writings on natural history and philosophy have become two sources of modern—day environmentalism.

Date of Birth:

July 12, 1817

Date of Death:

May 6, 1862

Place of Birth:

Concord, Massachusetts

Place of Death:

Concord, Massachusetts

Education:

Concord Academy, 1828-33); Harvard University, 1837

Table of Contents

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, July 20–23, 1857 
Friday, July 24
Saturday, July 25 
Sunday, July 26 
Monday, July 27 
Tuesday, July 28 
Wednesday, July 29 
Thursday, July 30 
Friday, July 31
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, August 1–3