{"product_id":"the-maine-woods-henry-david-thoreau-9780882409597","title":"The Maine Woods","description":"Posthumously published in 1864 \u003ci\u003eThe Maine Woods\u003c\/i\u003e, depicts Henry David Thoreau's experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author's transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to Nature. On Mount Katahdin, he faces a primal, untamed Nature. Katahdin is a place \"not even scarred by man, but it was a specimen of what God saw fit to make this world.\" In Maine he comes in contact with \"rocks, trees, wind and solid earth\" as though he were witness to the creation itself. Of equal importance, \u003ci\u003eThe Maine Woods\u003c\/i\u003e depicts Thoreau's contact with the American Indians and depicts his tribal education of learning the language, customs, and mores of the Penobscot people. Thoreau attempts to learn and speak the Abenaki language and becomes fascinated with its direct translation of natural phenomena as in the word \u003ci\u003esebamook\u003c\/i\u003e-a river estuary that never loses is water despite having an outlet because it also has an inlet.\u003ci\u003e The Maine Woods\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates the author's deeper understanding of the complexities of the primal wilderness of uplifted rocky summits in Maine and provides the reader with the pungent aroma of balsam firs, black spruce, mosses, and ferns as only Thoreau could. This new, redesigned edition features an insightful foreword by Thoreau scholar Richard Francis Fleck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henry David Thoreau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 088240959X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780882409597\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Westwinds Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d","brand":"Henry David Thoreau","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980682461439,"sku":"9780882409597","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_80e18b78-522c-4daa-ab46-a1011aca2fed.jpg?v=1683251296","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-maine-woods-henry-david-thoreau-9780882409597","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}