Backwoods and along the seashore
Subtitle: selections from The Maine woods and Cape Cod
By: edited by Peter Turner.
Contributors: Turner, Peter, 1960-; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Edition: 1st Shambhala library ed.
Series: Shambhala library
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Travel -- Maine; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Travel -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Piscataquis County (Me.) -- Description and travel; Maine -- Description and travel; Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The works of Henry David Thoreau contain some of the most beautifully written and inspiring observations of nature, yet most of his readers are familiar with only one of his books, Walden. Two other gems, The Maine Woods and Cape Cod, are travelogues containing some of his finest writing. Presented here are selections from the best of these two works, including Thoreau's record of his climb up Mount Katahdin, his arduous river journey by canoe down the Allegash River, the deadly shipwreck he encountered on his first trip to Cape Cod, as well as his wonderfully colorful and humorous portrait of a Wellfleet oysterman.

These writings offer a vision of Thoreau struggling with the harsh realities of wild nature and of how people might live in harmony with the natural world."--Jacket.