FOREWORD:
“DEEP IN THE WOODS WITH
HENRY THOREAU” by Richard F. Fleck
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
KTAADN
CHESUNCOOK
THE ALLEOASH AND EAST
BRANCH
APPENDIX
I. Trees
II. Flowers and Shrubs
III. List of
Plants
IV. List of Birds
V. Quadrupeds
VI. Outfit for an
Excursion
VII. A List of Indian Words
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American
author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister,
development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading
transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a
reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his
essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to
civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
Foreword writer Richard F. Fleck is author of many books including
Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians, editor of John
Muir’s Mountaineering Essays, A Colorado River Reader, which was
selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities to be the
reader for seven states project 2001-2. He contributed a biography
of John Burroughs for the Encyclopedia of New York State. Fleck is
also the author of numerous introductions to trade paperback
editions including Henry David Thoreau’s Maine Woods, John Muir’s
Our National Parks, and Samuel Hall Young’s Alaska Days with John
Muir.
The Maine Woods is a classic treatise about author Henry David Thoreau's experiences in the forests of Maine. Now in a redesigned edition celebrating 150 years in print with a foreword by Thoreau scholar Richard Francis Fleck, and a map showing the routes and dates of Thoreau's three journeys (produced by nonprofit forest preservation organization Maine Woods Forever), The Maine Woods remains an immersive experience in the beauty, majesty, and wonder of nature. Highly recommended, especially for public and college library literary shelves. -James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review-The Aviation Shelf
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