Introduction: "Bragging for Humanity" by Edward Hoagland
Ktaadn
Chesuncook
The Allegash 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
Index
Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He
graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong
Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key
member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret
Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The Transcendentalists' faith in nature
was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for
twenty-six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond. While living at
Walden, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his
lifetime- Walden (1854) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack
Rivers (1849). Several of his other works, including The Maine
Woods, Cape Cod, and Excursions, were published posthumously.
Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.
Edward Hoagland's books include The Courage of Turtles, Walking the
Dead Diamond River, Red Wolves and Black Bears, and Notes from the
Century Before- A Journal from British Columbia.
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