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The Maine Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)
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Title: The Maine Woods
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Release Date: April 9, 2013 [eBook #42500]
Language: English
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THE WRITINGS OF
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
IN TWENTY VOLUMES
VOLUME III
MANUSCRIPT EDITION
LIMITED TO SIX HUNDRED COPIES
NUMBER ——
THE WRITINGS OF
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
THE MAINE WOODS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
MDCCCCVI
COPYRIGHT 1864 BY TICKNOR AND FIELDS
COPYRIGHT 1892, 1893, AND 1906 BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
All rights reserved
CONTENTS
| INTRODUCTORY NOTE | ix | |
| KTAADN | 3 | |
| CHESUNCOOK | 93 | |
| THE ALLEGASH AND EAST BRANCH | 174 | |
| APPENDIX | ||
| I. TREES | 329 | |
| II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS | 330 | |
| III. LIST OF PLANTS | 335 | |
| IV. LIST OF BIRDS | 347 | |
| V. QUADRUPEDS | 349 | |
| VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION | 350 | |
| VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS | 351 | |
| INDEX | 359 | |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| SNOWBERRY, Carbon photograph (page 227) | Frontispiece |
| MOOSEHEAD LAKE, FROM MOUNT KINEO, | Colored plate |
| MAINE WILDERNESS | 88 |
| PINE TREE, BOAR MOUNTAIN | 134 |
| SQUAW MOUNTAIN, MOOSEHEAD LAKE | 184 |
| MOOSEHEAD LAKE, FROM MOUNT KINEO | 194 |
| MOUNT KINEO CLIFF | 298 |
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
The Maine Woods was the second volume collected from his writings after Thoreau's death. Of the material which composed it, the first two divisions were already in print. "Ktaadn and the Maine Woods" was the title of a paper printed in 1848 in The Union Magazine, and "Chesuncook" was published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1858. The book was edited by his friend William Ellery Channing.
It was during his second summer at Walden that Thoreau made his first visit to the Maine woods. It was probably in response to a request from Horace Greeley that he wrote out the narrative from his journal, for Mr. Greeley had shown himself eager to help Thoreau in putting his wares on the market. In a letter to Emerson, January 12, 1848, Thoreau writes: "I read a part of the story of my