num_pages: 480
description: "What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone!...Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature." -Henry David ThoreauOver a period of three years, Thoreau made three trips to the largely unexplored woods of Maine. He climbed mountains, paddled a canoe by midnight, and dined on cedar beer, hemlock tea, and moose tips. Taking notes constantly, Thoreau was just as likely to turn his observant eye to the habits and languages of the Abnaki Indians or the arduous life of the logger as he was to the workings of nature.
language: English
title: The Maine Woods
titlecomplete: The Maine Woods
genres: Literature, Classics, Memoir, Nature, Philosophy, Outdoors, Travel, Nonfiction, Natural History, Environment
ratings_count: 1329
places: Maine
publisher: Penguin Books