His writings on natural history and philosophy have be two sources of modern-day environmentalism. About the Author Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher and leading transcendentalist. He does not pretend to have written anything new, but to have attempted to put what he has to say in as readable a form as possible. Thoreau paints the woods and waterways of Maine with the same loving hand that described his Walden home, and entertains with the successes and difficulties of the trip and the quirks of his companion and their guide, Joseph Polis, told with a wit and insight that can only be found in Thoreau. THE Author of this very practical treatise on Scotch Loch - Fishing desires clearly that it may be of use to all who had it. Book Synopsis Thoreaus famous trip through the Maine Woods reissued to entertain, encourage, and inspire contemporary naturalists. Thoreau paints the woods and waterways of Maine with the same loving hand that described his Walden home, and entertains with the successes and difficulties of the trip and the quirks of his companion and their guide, Joseph Polis, told with a wit and insight that can only be found in Thoreau. Englisch.About the Book Thoreaus famous trip through the Maine Woods reissued to entertain, encourage, and inspire contemporary naturalists.
He was a careful and accurate observer, more at home in the fields and woods than in village and town, and with a gift of piquant originality in recording his impressions. Thoreau was one of the world's greatest nature writers, and as the years pass, his fame steadily increases. Here was a vast tract of almost virgin woodland, peopled only with a few loggers and pioneer farmers, Indians, and wild animals. It is particularly charming in its blending of meditative and poetic fancies with the minute description of the voyager's experiences.The chief attraction that inspired Thoreau to make the trip was the primitiveness of the region.
The record of the journey is the latter half of his The Maine Woods, which is perhaps the finest idyl of the forest ever written. Thoreau was one of the world's greatest nature writers, and as the years pass, his fame steadily increases. Essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau (181762) ranks among Americas foremost nature writers. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Thoreau was born at Concord, Massachusetts, July 12, 1817, and at the time he made this wilderness canoe trip he was forty years old.
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