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The Maine Woods eBooks
by Henry David Thoreau
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The Maine Woods Summary
| Anxious to get out of the whale's belly, I rose early, and joined some old salts, who were smoking by a dim light on a sheltered part of the deck. We were just getting into the river. They knew all about it, of course. I was proud to find that I had stood the voyage so well, and was not in the least digested. We brushed up and watched the first signs of dawn through an open port; but the day seemed to hang fire. We inquired the time; none of my companions had a chronometer. At length an African prince rushed by, observing, "Twelve o'clock, gentlemen!" and blew out the light. It was moon- rise. So I slunk down into the monster's bowels again. |
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| It is authorsĘs personal story of exterior and interior discoveries in a natural setting all conveyed in masterly prose. Thoreau takes the reader on a wonderful journey through the largely uninhabited forests of Maine. AuthorĘs knowledge in natural life is surprising. His journeys also include an Indian guide, giving an opportunityto to record Indian names for places. Informative read! |
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| ""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 Thoreau Over a period of three years, Thoreau made three trips to the largely unexplored woods of Maine. He climbed mountains, paddled a canoe by moonlight, and dined on cedar beer, hemlock tea and moose lips. 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. He acutely observed the rivers, lakes, mountains, wolves, moose, and stars in the dark sky. He also told of nights sitting by the campfire, and of meeting men who communicated with each other by writing on the trunks of trees. In The Maine Woods, Thoreau captured a wilder side of America and revealed his own adventurous spirit. |
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