The Maine Woods - Henry David Thoreau

“Nearly a century has passed since Thoreau paddled the length of Moosehead in his birchbark canoe heading for the headwaters of the Allegash and the white water of the East Branch of the Penobscot River. To those familiar with the north woods of the State of Maine this new edition of an old favorite will be like a breeze laden with the smell of balsam. To those who are not, this account of Thoreau’s excursions in the watersheds of the Kennebec, the Penobscot and the St. John will prove a welcome revelation. This new edition which departs from the traditional framework originally given to the book—not by Thoreau himself but evidently by his literary executors—has been recast in order that the reader may accompany Thoreau around the whole swing of the Ktaadn country, instead of on the three separate overlapping trips. The artist, Henry B. Kane, who is well known to all lovers of Thoreau, has drawn his illustrations with complete fidelity to the text and a wealth of imaginative understand