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Henry
David Thoreau
The Maine Woods
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The complete text online.
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Chesuncook |
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The Allegash & East Branch |
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The Portland Newspapers and WGME-TV spent
three weeks paddling and hiking portions of Thoreau's route, guided by the author's words
and ideas. Here, we share with readers, viewers and Internet users what we observed in the
woods and along the rivers and lakes that Thoreau described as "the wildest
country." -- Henry David Thoreau
Like Thoreau's book "The Maine Woods", this series is divided into three
parts, Chesuncook, the Allagash and East Branch, and Ktaadn. In each installment of this
website we learn more about Thoreau and more about how the world has changed in the 150
years ago since he trod across the land we call the Maine woods.
Also Included on this website:
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Essay by David Rothenburg, published in The Maine Scholar.
"The wild is more than a named place, an area to demarcate. It is a quality
that beguiles us, a tendency we both flee and seek. It is the unruly, what won't be kept
down, that crazy love, that path that no one advises us to take-it's against the rules,
it's too far, too fast, beyond order, irreconcilable with what we are told is right."
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We are five centuries too late to save the primeval north
forests of Maine, but we still have a chance to restore them. ONCE, a great
wilderness, stretching from the Atlantic ocean to the Great Plains. THEN, a region
seriously damaged by industrial development. TODAY, a land where wild nature is struggling
to return. TOMORROW, America's first restored landscape: a place of vast recovered
wilderness, of forests where the wolf and caribou roam free, of clear waters alive with
salmon and trout, of people once again living in harmony with nature.
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