North Maine Woods

Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He was an avid outdoors man and the outdoors was the topic of many of his books. His best-known novel was probably Walden, during which he spent a year by himself in a cabin next to Walden Pond. The Maine Woods is a collection of three of his adventures to Northern Maine each during different times of his life. Thoreau was also a botanist and on …

…this novel really caught my eye and my heart. The way that the hospitality has changed is showed in the book. The whole way through his trips there were logging or Indian camps on the way open to anyone who wanted to stop. It shows how much the world has been inhabited since his the trips. One in 1846, one in 1853, and the last in 1857. So I conclude my review with a quote from the novel.