With Abnaki guides, Thoreau climbed Mt.
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In The Maine Woods , Thoreau captured a wilder side of America and revealed his own adventurous spirit.
He also told of nights sitting by the campfire, and of meeting men who communicated with each other by writing on the trunks of trees.
He acutely observed the rivers, lakes, mountains, wolves, moose, and stars in the dark sky.
Taking notes constantly, Thoreau was just as likely to turn his observant eye to the habits and languages of the Abnaki Indians or the arduous life of the logger as he was to the workings of nature.
He climbed mountains, paddled a canoe by moonlight, and dined on cedar beer, hemlock tea and moose lips. -Henry David Thoreau Over a period of three years, Thoreau made three trips to the largely unexplored Woods of Maine.
What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone!...
Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature.
His accurate, evocative descriptions still reflect his belief that man himself is a part of the natural world.
Katahdin and hiked deep into the Maine Woods to places where one might live and die and never hear of the United States.
With Abnaki guides, Thoreau climbed Mt
