The
Maine Woods
by Henry David Thoreau - 1864
Thoreau was working on his Allegash essay when he died in 1862, and
his last two understandable words were "moose" and "Indian". The accounts
of three excusions to Maine were collected for this book. They are each
so long as to be difficult to read on-line, and are divided here into smaller
parts...
"the book as a whole gives an effective bosky and moosey picture
of the deepest wilderness Thoreau was ever to explore. If Cape Cod
tastes of salt, The Maine Woods smells of hemlock and balsam." -
Walter Harding, The Days of Henry Thoreau
"one of the most coniferous-pungent books in the English language,
a book which a century later still remains one of the the best written
on the woods of Maine." - Mary P. Sherwood, in Thoreau in Our Season
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