The Maine Woods (Record no. 17477)
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| fixed length control field | 01259nam a2200181 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781400834136 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 700687115 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | F27.P5 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 917.41043 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Henry David Thoreau |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Maine Woods |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Princeton University Press |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 376 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Travel |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Essays |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 12/22/2023 | 818.30 THOR | 57169 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |