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Table of contents :
Contents
Map of the Maine Woods
1. Introduction
2. Ktaadn
3. Chesuncook
4. The Allegash and East Branch
Appendix
Index

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The Writings of

Henry D. Thoreau The Maine Woods

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HENRY D. THOREAU

The Maine Woods E D I T E D BY J O S E P H J .

MOLDENHAUER

W I T H AN I N T R O D U C T I O N BY PAUL T H E R O U X

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD

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AN APPROVED TEXT MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION O F AMERICA

■aißThe Center emblem means that one of a panel of textual experts serving the Center has reviewed the text and textual apparatus of the original volume by thorough and scrupulous sampling, and has approved them for sound and consistent editorial principles employed and maximum accuracy attained. The accuracy of the text has been guarded by careful and repeated proofreading of printer's copy according to standards set by the Center. Editorial expenses for this volume have been met in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities administered through the Center for Editions of American Authors of the Modern Language Association. Text Copyright © 1972, 2004 by Princeton University Press Map Copyright © 1970 by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 3 Market Place, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 iSY All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Control Number 2004101885 ISBN 0-691-11877-9 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Printed on acid-free paper. « pup.przncei07z.edu Printed in the United States of America 10

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Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell Executive Committee William L. Howarth Robert N. Hudspeth Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Textual Editor William Rossi Nancy Craig Simmons

The Writings Waiden, J. Lyndon Shanley (1971) The Maine Woods, Joseph J. Moldenhauer (1972) Reform Papers, Wendell Glick (1973) Early Essays and Miscellanies, Joseph J. Moldenhauer et al. (1975) A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Carl F. Hovde et al. (1980) Journal 1: 1837-1844, Elizabeth Hall Witherell et al. (1981) Journal 2: 1842-1848, Robert Sattelmeyer (1984) Translations, K. P. Van Anglen (1986) Cape Cod, Joseph J. Moldenhauer (1988) Journal 3: 1848-1851, Robert Sattelmeyer, Mark R. Patterson, and William Rossi (1990) Journal 4: 1851-1852, Leonard N. Neufeldt and Nancy Craig Simmons (1992) Journal 5: 1852-1853, Patrick F. O'Connell (1997) Journal 6: 1853, William Rossi and Heather Kirk Thomas (2000) Journal 8: 1854, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (2002) The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform, Wendell Glick (2004)

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Contents Map of the Maine Woods Introduction by Paul Theroux Ktaadn Chesuncook

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The Allegash and East Branch

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Appendix I. Trees

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II. Flowers and Shrubs III. List of Plants IV. List of Birds V. Quadrupeds VI. Outfit for an Excursion VII. A List of Indian Words Index by Paul O. Williams

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