... The Maine Woods HENRY DAVID THOREAU 1864 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Resourc... ... II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 III. LIST OF PLANTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 IV . LIST OF... ...7 VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N... ...ercise of practical talent merely are a sure and rapid means of intellectual culture and independence. The last edition of Greenleaf’s Map of Maine hu... ...ng confinement in constrained positions in canoes, in their long voyages from Quebec to the Huron country; but afterwards I sat on the cross bars, or s... ... answered that they were another language. As Tahmunt said that he traded at Quebec, my companion inquired the meaning of Chesuncook 87 the word Queb... ...hs and humanized Nature for him. But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pine...

...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on...

...Table of Contents: Ktaadn, 1 -- Chesuncook, 51 -- The Allegash and East Branch, 96 -- Appendix, 184 -- I. TREES., 184 -- II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS., 185 -- III. LIST OF PLANTS., 188 -- IV. LIST OF BIRDS, 196 -- V. QUADRUPEDS., 197 -- ...