{"product_id":"the-maine-woods-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenry 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 \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay \u003ci\u003eCivil Disobedience\u003c\/i\u003e, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Foreword writer Richard F. Fleck is author of many books including \u003ci\u003eHenry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians\u003c\/i\u003e, editor of John Muir's \u003ci\u003eMountaineering Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Colorado River Reader, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of New York State\u003c\/i\u003e. Fleck is also the author of numerous introductions to trade paperback editions including Henry David Thoreau's \u003ci\u003eMaine Woods, \u003c\/i\u003e John Muir's \u003ci\u003eOur National Parks, \u003c\/i\u003eand Samuel Hall Young's \u003ci\u003eAlaska Days with John Muir\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Westwinds Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50504001814802,"sku":"9780882409597","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_919d3a19-0ea8-4f36-8c56-e2ddff3a4289.jpg?v=1748532613","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-maine-woods-9780882409597","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}