Els boscos de Maine
- Idioma:
- anglès
- Completesa:
- Obra completa
- Autoria:
- Escrita per l'autor
- Estat del text:
- Text net
- Extensió:
- ~110.000 paraules · 502 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APAHenry David Thoreau. (n.d.). Els boscos de Maine. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/thoreau/the-maine-woods
- MLAHenry David Thoreau. "Els boscos de Maine." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/thoreau/the-maine-woods.
- ChicagoHenry David Thoreau. Els boscos de Maine. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/thoreau/the-maine-woods.
De què tracta
El relat de tres viatges als boscos del nord del Maine, entre el 1846 i el 1857, i el llibre on Thoreau troba una natura que no s'assembla gens a la de Walden.
Context i història
Walden era un estany a tres quilometres del poble; aixo es bosc de debo, i el canvi es nota. El moment mes conegut es l'ascensio al mont Katahdin, on Thoreau es troba amb un paisatge que el rebutja, i escriu unes pagines desconcertades sobre la materia pura, inhumana, que no espera ningu: «Contacte! Contacte! Qui som? On som?». La resta son travessies en canoa amb guies penobscot —Joe Polis sobretot, que hi surt com una persona i no com un tipus—, i observacions precises sobre arbres, rius i el negoci de la fusta que ja se'ls estava menjant. Es va publicar postumament el 1864. Es el Thoreau menys domesticat i el que mes es llegeix avui a l'ecologia.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
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 the West Branch of the Penobscot, in which property he was interested. From this place, which is about one hundred miles by the river above Bangor, thirty miles from the Houlton military road, and five miles beyond the last log hut, I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there. It is unusual to find a camp so far in the woods at that season, when lumbering operations have ceased, and I was glad to avail myself of the circumstance of a gang of men being employed there at that time in repairing the injuries caused by the great freshet in the spring. The mountain may be approached more easily and directly on horseback and on foot from the northeast side, by the Aroostook road, and the Wassataquoik River; but in that case you see much less of the wilderness, none of the glorious river and lake scenery, and have no experience of the batteau and the boatman’s life. I was fortunate also in the season of the year, for in the summer myriads of black flies, mosquitoes, and midges, or, as the Indians call them, “no-see-ems,” make traveling in the woods almost impossible; but now their reign was nearly over. Ktaadn, whose name is an Indian word signifying highest land, was first ascended by white men in 1804. It was visited by Professor J. W. Bailey of West Point in 1836; by Dr. Charles T. Jackson, the State Geologist, in 1837; and by two young men from Boston in 1845. All these have given accounts of their expeditions. Since I was there, two or three other parties have made the excursion, and told their stories.…