Thoreau's Maine Woods: Yesterday and Today by Cheryl Seal, Bob Bukaty (Photographer)

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Over a hundred years ago, Henry David Thoreau trekked, canoed, and camped in the Maine woods, keeping detailed notes in his journal about his first encounter with "the solemn, bear-haunted mountains with their great wooded slopes." Stirred by the mystery and solemnity of the vast wilderness, with its forbidding mountains and crystal-clear lakes and streams, he wrote an eloquent plea for the preservation of America's forests. What has become of the wilderness that Thoreau called "vast, Titanic, and such as man never inhabits"? The fragile beauty of the Maine woods - now used by loggers, tourists, and hunters - has changed, but not vanished. In words and photographs that retrace Thoreau's first journeys into the Maine wilderness and capture images from the woods today, author Cheryl Seal and photographer Robert F. Bukaty have collaborated to create a lasting tribute to a vanishing treasure. Seal gives a detailed, deeply personal biography of Thoreau as champion of nature and a vivid portrayal of the Maine woods as they once were. Excerpts from Thoreau's private journals are matched by Robert F. Bukaty's evocative photographs of Maine's woods and wildlife as they appear today. The result of this remarkable collaboration is a loving portrait of the state's natural beauty and lore, and an impassioned cry for preservation. Seal and Bukaty have created a book that is an enduring treasure for all nature lovers.

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