Among his other books are the novels Chicago Loop and Mosquito Coast. But his impassioned protest against the despoilment of nature in the name of commerce and sport, which even by the 1850s threatened to deprive Americans of the 'tonic of wildness,' makes The Maine Woods an especially vital book for our own time.Ībout the Author Paul Theroux is a travel writer who is widely credited with reviving the genre in 1975 with his The Great Railway Bazaar. Thoreau's evocative renderings of the life of the primitive forest-its mountains, waterways, fauna, flora, and inhabitants-are timeless and valuable on their own. The Maine Woods is classic Thoreau: a personal story of exterior and interior discoveries in a natural setting-all conveyed in taut, masterly prose. It presents Thoreau's fullest account of the wilderness. Read in English by Expatriate On August 31, 1846, twenty-nine-year-old Henry David Thoreau left his cabin on Walden Pond to undertake a railroad and steamboat journey to Bangor, Maine, from where he would venture with his Penobscot guide Joe Polis deep into the backwoods of Maine. Originally published in 1864, and published now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, this volume is a powerful telling of those journeys through a rugged and largely unspoiled land. LibriVox recording of The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau. As I make my way through the rest of the books I will add to my review. So far I have only read Walden so my review will limit itself to that book. Henry David Thoreau Over a period of three years, Thoreau made three trips to the largely unexplored woods of Maine. This review is for the Library of America edition of Henry David Thoreaus four full-length works, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden, The Maine Woods, and Cape Cod. Thoreau traveled to the backwoods of Maine in 1846, 1853, and 1857. Empieza a leer The Henry David Thoreau Collection: Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Walking, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod gratis en lnea y. About The Maine Woods What a wilderness walk for a man to take aloneHere was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature. It presents his fullest account of the wilderness. About the Book Originally published in 1864, and published now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, this volume is a powerful telling of Thoreau's journeys through a rugged and largely unspoiled land.