PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS- 9780691118772
Originally published in 1864, and published now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, this volume is a powerful telling of Thoreau''s journeys through a rugged and largely unspoiled land. It presents his fullest account of the wilderness. Henry D. Thoreau traveled to the backwoods of Maine in 1846, 1853, and 1857. Originally published in 1864, and published now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, this volume is a powerful telling of those journeys through a rugged and largely unspoiled land. It presents Thoreau''s fullest account of the wilderness. "The Maine Woods" is classic Thoreau: a personal story of exterior and interior discoveries in a natural setting--all conveyed in taut, masterly prose. Thoreau''s evocative renderings of the life of the primitive forest--its mountains, waterways, fauna, flora, and inhabitants--are timeless and valuable on their own. But his impassioned protest against the despoilment of nature in the name of commerce and sport, which even by the 1850s threatened to deprive Americans of the "tonic of wildness," makes "The Maine Woods" an especially vital book for our own time.
Especificaciones del producto
Paul Theroux (Medford, Massachusetts, 1941) es uno de los escritores más reconocidos del mundo. El gran bazar del ferrocarril (Alfaguara, 2018) lo catapultó a la fama en 1976 y constituye un clásico de la literatura de viajes. En su prolífica obra destacan títulos como Tren fantasma a la Estrella de Oriente (Alfaguara, 2010), El Tao del viajero (Alfaguara, 2012) y El último tren a la zona verde (Alfaguara, 2015), o novelas como La costa de los mosquitos (adaptada al cine por Peter Weir y por la que recibió en 1981 el James Tait Black Memorial Prize), La calle de la media luna, Hotel Honolulu, Elefanta Suite (Alfaguara, 2008), Un crimen en Calcuta (Alfaguara, 2011) y En Lower River (Alfaguara, 2014). Tras la muerte de su madre pudo dar por terminada Madre patria, su desgarradora novela autobiográfica en la que llevaba años trabajando.
¡Sólo por opinar entras en el sorteo mensual de tres tarjetas regalo valoradas en 20€*!