Los bosques de Maine
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Texto limpio
- Extensión:
- ~110.000 palabras · 502 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAHenry David Thoreau. (n.d.). Los bosques de Maine. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/thoreau/the-maine-woods
- MLAHenry David Thoreau. "Los bosques de Maine." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/thoreau/the-maine-woods.
- ChicagoHenry David Thoreau. Los bosques de Maine. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/thoreau/the-maine-woods.
De qué trata
El relato de tres viajes a los bosques del norte de Maine, entre 1846 y 1857, y el libro donde Thoreau encuentra una naturaleza que no se parece nada a la de Walden.
Contexto e historia
Walden era un estanque a tres kilómetros del pueblo; esto es bosque de verdad, y el cambio se nota. El momento más conocido es la ascensión al monte Katahdin, donde Thoreau se encuentra con un paisaje que lo rechaza, y escribe unas páginas desconcertadas sobre la materia pura, inhumana, que no espera a nadie: «¡Contacto! ¡Contacto! ¿Quiénes somos? ¿Dónde estamos?». El resto son travesías en canoa con guías penobscot —Joe Polis sobre todo, que aparece como una persona y no como un tipo—, y observaciones precisas sobre árboles, ríos y el negocio de la madera que ya se los estaba comiendo. Se publicó póstumamente en 1864. Es el Thoreau menos domesticado y el que más se lee hoy en ecología.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra 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.…