The Wildest Country: Exploring Thoreau's Maine

Back in print by popular demand, this fully updated and revised edition of The Wildest Country: A Guide to Thoreau s Maine follows the famed naturalist Henry David Thoreau s sojourns in Maine and offers modern commentary on how the route has changed. Drawing on Thoreau s faithfully recorded itineraries in his classic book The Maine Woods, author J. Parker Huber provides comprehensive color maps and summaries of Thoreau s travels. Huber artfully organizes these excursions into one grand tour of Maine s most impressive scenery. From Moosehead Lake to Katahdin, returning to Bangor down the Penobscot River, today s traveler can trace these routes for an hour, a day, or several weeks.

Throughout, The Wildest Country is illuminated with Thoreau s distinctive observations of his natural surroundings and his fellow man: his delight in the illusive laughing loons; his sampling of indigenous tea substitutes; and his pact with Indian guide Joe Polis to exchange every bit of knowledge each possessed within 11 days.

This beautiful edition, illustrated with beautiful color and historic black-and-white photographs, is the perfect choice to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Maine Woods, first published in Boston in 1864.