Wildest Country: Exploring Thoreau'S Maine
Back in print by popular demand, this fully updated and revised edition of The Wildest Country: A Guide to Thoreau’s Maine follows the famed naturalist Henry David Thoreau’s sojourns in Maine and offers modern commentary on how the route has changed.  Drawing on Thoreau’s faithfully recorded itineraries in his classic book The Maine Woods, author J. Parker Huber provides comprehensive color maps and summaries of Thoreau’s travels.  Huber artfully organizes these excursions into one grand tour of Maine’s most impressive scenery.  From Moosehead Lake to Katahdin, returning to Bangor down the Penobscot River, today’s traveler can trace these routes for an hour, a day, or several weeks. 

Throughout, The Wildest Country is illuminated with Thoreau’s distinctive observations of his natural surroundings and his fellow man: his delight in the illusive laughing loons; his sampling of indigenous tea substitutes; and his pact with Indian guide Joe Polis to exchange every bit of knowledge each possessed—within 11 days.

 

This beautiful edition, illustrated with beautiful color and historic black-and-white photographs, is the perfect choice to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Maine Woods, first published in Boston in 1864.
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Wildest Country: Exploring Thoreau'S Maine
Back in print by popular demand, this fully updated and revised edition of The Wildest Country: A Guide to Thoreau’s Maine follows the famed naturalist Henry David Thoreau’s sojourns in Maine and offers modern commentary on how the route has changed.  Drawing on Thoreau’s faithfully recorded itineraries in his classic book The Maine Woods, author J. Parker Huber provides comprehensive color maps and summaries of Thoreau’s travels.  Huber artfully organizes these excursions into one grand tour of Maine’s most impressive scenery.  From Moosehead Lake to Katahdin, returning to Bangor down the Penobscot River, today’s traveler can trace these routes for an hour, a day, or several weeks. 

Throughout, The Wildest Country is illuminated with Thoreau’s distinctive observations of his natural surroundings and his fellow man: his delight in the illusive laughing loons; his sampling of indigenous tea substitutes; and his pact with Indian guide Joe Polis to exchange every bit of knowledge each possessed—within 11 days.

 

This beautiful edition, illustrated with beautiful color and historic black-and-white photographs, is the perfect choice to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Maine Woods, first published in Boston in 1864.
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Wildest Country: Exploring Thoreau'S Maine

Wildest Country: Exploring Thoreau'S Maine

Wildest Country: Exploring Thoreau'S Maine

Wildest Country: Exploring Thoreau'S Maine

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Back in print by popular demand, this fully updated and revised edition of The Wildest Country: A Guide to Thoreau’s Maine follows the famed naturalist Henry David Thoreau’s sojourns in Maine and offers modern commentary on how the route has changed.  Drawing on Thoreau’s faithfully recorded itineraries in his classic book The Maine Woods, author J. Parker Huber provides comprehensive color maps and summaries of Thoreau’s travels.  Huber artfully organizes these excursions into one grand tour of Maine’s most impressive scenery.  From Moosehead Lake to Katahdin, returning to Bangor down the Penobscot River, today’s traveler can trace these routes for an hour, a day, or several weeks. 

Throughout, The Wildest Country is illuminated with Thoreau’s distinctive observations of his natural surroundings and his fellow man: his delight in the illusive laughing loons; his sampling of indigenous tea substitutes; and his pact with Indian guide Joe Polis to exchange every bit of knowledge each possessed—within 11 days.

 

This beautiful edition, illustrated with beautiful color and historic black-and-white photographs, is the perfect choice to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Maine Woods, first published in Boston in 1864.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781934028094
Publisher: AMC Books
Publication date: 05/01/2008
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

J. Parker Huber has been following Thoreau throughout New England since 1974.  He is the editor of Elevating Ourselves: Thoreau on Mountains (Houghton Mifflin, 1999) and author of A Wanderer All My Days: John Muir in New England (Green Frigate Books, 2007). 

Table of Contents

(1) Thoreau and Maine, (2) Moosehead Lake, (3) West Branch of the Penobscot, Northern Section, (4) Chesuncook Lake, (5) Allagash Lakes, (6) Webster Lake and Brook, (7) Grand Lake Matagamon, (8) East Branch of the Penobscot River, (9) West Branch of the Penobscot River, Southern Section, (10) Katahdin, (11) Penobscot River
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