I boschi del Maine
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Testo pulito
- Estensione:
- ~110.000 parole · 502 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAHenry David Thoreau. (n.d.). I boschi del Maine. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/thoreau/the-maine-woods
- MLAHenry David Thoreau. "I boschi del Maine." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/thoreau/the-maine-woods.
- ChicagoHenry David Thoreau. I boschi del Maine. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/thoreau/the-maine-woods.
Di che cosa tratta
Il racconto di tre viaggi nei boschi settentrionali del Maine, fra il 1846 e il 1857, e il libro in cui Thoreau incontra una natura che non somiglia affatto a quella di Walden.
Contesto e storia
Walden era uno stagno a tre chilometri dal paese; questo è bosco vero, e il cambiamento si sente. Il passo più noto è la salita al monte Katahdin, dove Thoreau incontra un paesaggio che lo respinge, e scrive alcune pagine sconcertate sulla materia pura, disumana, che non aspetta nessuno: «Contatto! Contatto! Chi siamo? dove siamo?». Il resto sono traversate in canoa con guide penobscot — Joe Polis soprattutto, che vi appare come una persona e non come un tipo — e osservazioni precise su alberi, fiumi e il commercio del legname che già se li mangiava. Uscì postumo nel 1864. È il Thoreau meno addomesticato, e quello che oggi si legge di più in ecologia.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul 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.…