Rediscovering the Maine woods : Thoreau's legacy in an unsettled land /

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"The Maine Woods, vast and largely unsettled, are often described as unchanged since Henry David Thoreau's 1847 journey across the backcountry, in spite of the realities of Indian dispossession and the visible signs of logging, settlement, tourism, and real estate development. In the summe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kucich, John (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2019]
Temas:
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Travel > Maine.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Influence.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862. > Maine woods.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862
Maine woods (Thoreau, Henry David)
Wilderness areas > Maine.
Forest ecology > Maine.
Indians of North America > Maine.
Human ecology > Maine.
Réserves de la vie sauvage > Maine.
Écologie forestière > Maine.
Peuples autochtones > Maine.
Écologie humaine > Maine.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Ecology
Forest ecology
Human ecology
Indians of North America
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Travel
Wilderness areas
Piscataquis County (Me.) > Description and travel.
Maine > Description and travel.
Maine > Environmental conditions.
Maine > Descriptions et voyages.
Maine > Conditions environnementales.
Maine
Maine > Piscataquis County
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : rediscovering the Maine Woods / John J. Kucich
  • Crossing Moosehead Lake / Chris Sockalexis
  • Undercurrents / Stan Tag
  • The Maine Woods rhomboid / Robert M. Thorson
  • "Some star's surface" : Thoreau in the Maine Woods / Laura Dassow Walls
  • Sublime matter : materiality and language in Thoreau's "Ktaadn" / Melissa Sexton
  • Eating moose : Thoreau, regional cuisine, and national identity / Kathryn Dolan
  • Pilgrimages and working forests : envisioning the commons in the Maine Woods / James S. Finley
  • Multiple use and its discontents : popular conservation writing in the Maine Woods a century after Thoreau / Dale Potts
  • Thoreau's Maine Woods and the problem of wildness / Richard W. Judd
  • Conclusion : carrying place : Penobscot language, land, and memory / James Francis.

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