By Henry David Thoreau
Originally released 1864
"What a barren region stroll for a guy to take alone!...Here used to be touring of the outdated heroic type over the unaltered face of nature." Henry David Thoreau
Over a interval of 3 years, Thoreau made 3 journeys to the principally unexplored woods of Maine. He climbed mountains, paddled a canoe by way of moonlight, and dined on cedar beer, hemlock tea and moose lips. Taking notes regularly, Thoreau was once simply as prone to flip his observant eye to the conduct and languages of the Abnaki Indians or the onerous lifetime of the logger as he was once to the workings of nature. He acutely saw the rivers, lakes, mountains, wolves, moose, and stars at the hours of darkness sky. He additionally advised of nights sitting through the campfire, and of assembly males who communicated with one another through writing at the trunks of timber. within the Maine Woods, Thoreau captured a wilder part of the USA and published his personal adventurous spirit.
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