Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher:
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Category : Chesuncook Lake
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Katahdin and Chesuncook
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chesuncook Lake
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Katahdin Section of Guide to the Appalachian Trail in Maine
Author: Appalachian Trail ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appalachian Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Baxter State Park and the Allagash River
Author: Frank H. SleeperPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738509938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Baxter State Park and the Allagash River covers two spectacular areas in the northern Maine woods. Baxter State Park, with more than 200,000 acres, is the largest park in the country purchased by one individual, former governor Percival P. Baxter. The park includes Mount Katahdin, the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail and the highest peak in Maine. Breathtaking photographs portray the scenic Allagash River, which was designated a wilderness waterway in 1966 by the Maine legislature. It was the first state-managed river area in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System in 1970. Included in this volume are stereoscopic photographs of Mount Katahdin from the early 1870s. This mountain, sacred to the Native Americans, has an atmosphere that is masterfully conveyed in the extraordinary photographs used in this history. The Allagash River is portrayed as it was before the wilderness waterway was created. Baxter State Park and the Allagash River chronicles the progression of the river and park from lumbering, hunting, and fishing to its eventual preservation and tourism. Frank H. Sleeper has authored numerous
The Maine Woods
Author: Henry David ThoreauFarrar's Illustrated Guide Book to Moosehead Lake and Vicinity, the Wilds of Northern Maine, and the Head-waters of the Kennebec, Penobscot, and St. John Rivers
Author: Charles Alden John FarrarPublisher:
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In the Maine Woods
Author: Katahdin and Chesuncook
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230412320
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...On reaching this secluded meadow, we found fresh tracks of moose on the shore of the pond, and the water was still unsettled as if they had fled before us. A little farther, in a dense thicket, we seemed to be still on their trail. Pursuing this course, we soon reached the open land, which went sloping down some miles toward the Penobscot. Perhaps I most fully realized that this was primeval, untamed, and forever untamable Nature, while coming down this part of the mountain. We were passing over "Burnt Lands," though they showed no recent marks of fire, hardly so much as a charred stump, but looked rather like a natural pasture for the moose and deer, exceedingly wild and desolate, with occasional strips of timber crossing them, and low poplars springing up, and patches of blueberries here and there. Ere long we recognized some rocks and other features in the landscape, and, quickening our pace, by two o'clock we reached the bateau. Here we had expected to dine on trout, but in this glaring sunlight they were slow to take the bait, so we were compelled to make the most of the crumbs of our hard-bread and our pork, which were both nearly exhausted. About four o'clock, the same afternoon, we commenced our return voyage, which would require but little if any poling. In shooting rapids the boatmen use large and broad paddles, instead of poles, to guide the boat with. Though we glided so swiftly, and often smoothly, down, where it had cost us no slight effort to get up, our present voyage was attended with far more danger, for if we fairly struck one of the thousand rocks by which we were surrounded, the boat would be swamped in an instant. When a boat is swamped under these circumstances, the boatmen commonly find no difficulty in...
A Century of Early Ecocriticism
Author: David MazelPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820322223
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
In the 1970s the relationship between literature and the environment emerged as a topic of serious and widespread interest among writers and scholars. The ideas, debates, and texts that grew out of this period subsequently converged and consolidated into the field now known as ecocriticism. A Century of Early Ecocriticism looks behind these recent developments to a prior generation's ecocritical inclinations. Written between 1864 and 1964, these thirty-four selections include scholars writing about the “green” aspects of literature as well as nature writers reflecting on the genre. In his introduction, David Mazel argues that these early “ecocritics” played a crucial role in both the development of environmentalism and the academic study of American literature and culture. Filled with provocative, still timely ideas, A Century of Early Ecocriticism demonstrates that our concern with the natural world has long informed our approach to literature.
Farrar's illustrated guide book to Moosehead Lake
Author: C.A. FarrarPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5875812087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
A New and Соrrect Map of the Lake Region, drawn and printed expressly for this book
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