Download or read book The Maine Woods written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry D. Thoreau traveled to the backwoods of Maine in 1846, 1853, and 1857. Originally published in 1864, and published now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, this volume is a powerful telling of those journeys through a rugged and largely unspoiled land. It presents Thoreau's fullest account of the wilderness. The Maine Woods is classic Thoreau: a personal story of exterior and interior discoveries in a natural setting--all conveyed in taut, masterly prose. Thoreau's evocative renderings of the life of the primitive forest--its mountains, waterways, fauna, flora, and inhabitants--are timeless and valuable on their own. But his impassioned protest against the despoilment of nature in the name of commerce and sport, which even by the 1850s threatened to deprive Americans of the "tonic of wildness," makes The Maine Woods an especially vital book for our own time.
Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Woods a Year on Protection Island written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Woods is the cure-all to Perfect Island Getaway nostalgia. It's a story of everyday domestic survival, peopled by both loveable eccentrics and possibly murdersome cranks, foregrounding the little-known history of violence on Protection Island. Amber McMillan's writing balances an eye for the unusual and resiliently beautiful with a sympathy for the frailties common to all her islanders."'Kevin Chong, author of Baroque-a-Nova, Neil Young Nation and Beauty Plus Pity * The Woods: A Year on Protection Island is a book of non-fiction stories that probes and witnesses the unique and sometimes unsettling atmosphere of small town-island life in the Georgia Strait. The measure of one's success here doesn't rely on status or income, but on the skillful handling of neighbours, the resourcefulness for survival, and the adaptation to both the rigorous outdoors of the Pacific Northwest and equally challenging human community of need, trade, and negotiated civility. These are stories of the people and families who sought refuge here, for different reasons and with different outcomes: Keith, a cross-dressing retired sea captain who can't overcome the death of his wife; Steve, the contractor who escapes his deaf wife and the silence of his domestic life by perfecting his physical property, using only the loudest of electric chainsaws and lawnmowers from morning until dusk; Cris, the seventy-six-year-old library curator who has recently discovered scotch whiskey and sex again after twenty-five years; and of various other transplants making their way through the murky terrain of living on an island. Like no other community on Earth, this small place is packed with secret corners, eerie histories and a whispering darkness. This is the complicated convergence of human capacities: from homicides (both in the same house, unrelated and years apart) to some of the greatest gestures of generosity, social reform and equality. This is the place of the close-up encounter of who we are stripped of distractions and escapist entertainment; who we are in the woods.
Download or read book The Island Woods written by Mark Carlotto and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people naturally associate Cape Ann - the other cape along the Massachusetts coast - with the sea - with seafood restaurants, scenic vistas, sailing, scuba diving, and surfing. Few are aware of the mysteries that lie hidden in the middle of the Cape. Hiking through the woods one encounters all kinds of interesting things: gigantic boulders, rock walls, stone foundations, collapsed wells, abandoned quarries, old roads and more. Covered by bittersweet and cat briar, much of the interior has been undisturbed for hundreds of years. It is not the coastline of Cape Ann with its quaint shops, sandy beaches, and ocean vistas, but the inland woods - the vast unsettled area stretching from Lanesville south to Blackburn Circle, from Riverdale east to Rockport - that is the subject of this book. For here are the remains of a colonial settlement that became known as Dogtown in its latter days, old quarries now popular (but private) swimming holes, and "word rocks" scattered about the rocky terrain telling us how to live our lives. All of this connected by a maze of old roads and trails whose origins can be traced to colonial times but still confuse and confound even the most experienced hiker. This book complements the many books both historical and fictional that have been written about Dogtown and Cape Ann. The narrative and photographs are wrapped around a new map that serves as a "time machine" for exploring the inland woods. This new map combines information from historical maps with highly accurate GPS measurements presented in the form of an "image-map" that is displayed over high-resolution aerial photography. We follow old roads the early settlers used to travel point-to-point from one hamlet along the coast to another, not all the way around along Route 127 as we do today. These roads take us to the Commons Settlement - one of the first settlements on Cape Ann, where we try to imagine what it was like to live here without running water and other modern conveniences. We can find the homes of Peter Lurvey, Judy Rhines, Liz Tucker, Easter Carter, Granny Day, and other characters from the stories of Charles E. Mann and Anita Diamant, or go to where James Merry, the tragic figure of Charles Olson's poem, "Maximus of Dogtown" died. We might even discover the places where Marsden Hartley painted his rocky landscapes. From Dogtown we can head north to visit the quarries and compare what we see today with the stark landscapes of past centuries when quarries and quarry railroads dominated the northern hills of the Cape. Or we can fast forward to the 1930s and follow trails south to the Babson Boulders - Roger Babson's beliefs and philosophy etched in stone - and beyond to the Babson Reservoir - the Babson family's enduring legacy to the people of Gloucester. We leave the reader with descriptions of cellar holes, stone foundations, and other unidentified structures to consider and perhaps investigate on foot, and a mysterious map of Dogtown drawn in the early 1900s by a Methodist minister that shows features that no one has yet been able to identify.
Download or read book The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods written by Andrew M. Barton and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ecology of the ever-changing Maine forest
Download or read book Western Woods and Waters written by John Hoskyns Abrahall and published by London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. This book was released on 1864 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Maine Woods written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Timber Trees Timber and Fancy Woods as also The Forests of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia written by Edward Balfour and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
Download or read book The Timber Trees Timber and Fancy Woods as Also the Forests of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia written by Edward Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Woods and Waters written by Alfred Billings Street and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1860 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Woods of Hawaii written by Roger G. Skolmen and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Of Prairie Woods and Water written by Joel Greenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the literary imagination, Chicago evokes images of industry and unbridled urban growth. But the tallgrass prairie and deep forests that once made up Chicago’s landscape also inspired musings from residents and visitors alike. In Of Prairie, Woods, and Water, naturalist Joel Greenberg gathers these unique voices from the land to present an unexpected portrait of Chicago in this often charming, sometimes heart-wrenching anthology of nature writing. These writings tell the tale of a land in transition—one with abundant, unique, and incredibly lush flora and fauna, a natural history quite elusive today. Drawing on archives he uncovered while writing his acclaimed A Natural History of the Chicago Region, Greenberg hand-selected these first-person narratives, all written between 1721 and 1959. Not every author is familiar, but every contribution is distinctive. From a pioneer’s hilarious notes on life in the Kankakee marsh to Theodore Drieser’s poignant plea for conservation of the Tippecanoe River to infamous murderer Nathan Leopold’s charming description of a pet robin he kept in prison, the sources included are as diverse as the nature they describe. The excerpts conclude with insightful biographical essays and traverse a wide area of greater Chicagoland, from the Illinois River to southwest Michigan, from southern Wisconsin to the Limberlost swamp of northeastern Indiana. A fascinating record of Chicago’s changing environmental history, Of Prairie, Woods, and Water captures the natural world in a way that will inspire its continued conservation. Errata: We have learned the title of a book by the Chicago ecologist and writer May Theilgaard Watts has been incorrectly rendered in the selections attributed to Mrs. Watts. The correct title of her book is Reading the Landscape of America (Nature Study Guild Publishers, see http://naturestudy.com). This will be corrected in the next printing. We very much regret the error.
Download or read book Reports and Awards written by United States Centennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
