Back in print by popular demand, this revised edition follows the famed naturalist Henry David Thoreau’s sojourns in Maine and provides today’s travelers with modern-day excursions.

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 a comprehensive map 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.

(1) Thoreau and Maine, (2) Moosehead Lake, (3) West Branch of the Penobscot, Northern Section, (4) Chesuncook Lake, (5) Allagash Lakes, (6) Webster Lake and Brook, (7) Grand Lake Matagamon, (8) East Branch of the Penobscot River, (9) West Branch of the Penobscot River, Southern Section, (10) Katahdin, (11) Penobscot River

J. Parker Huber has been following Thoreau throughout New England since 1974.  He is the editor of Elevating Ourselves: Thoreau on Mountains (Houghton Mifflin, 1999).  He lives in Vermont.

Imprint: Appalachian Mountain Club Books
Distributor: The Globe Pequot Press
Publication Date: 05-01-2008
Pages: 240
Measurements: 9.25in X 7.00in