メインの森
- 言語:
- 英語
- 状態:
- 完全な作品
- 著者性:
- 著者自身による
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- 良好なテキスト
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この作品を引用
- APAヘンリー・デイヴィッド・ソロー. (n.d.). メインの森. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/thoreau/the-maine-woods
- MLAヘンリー・デイヴィッド・ソロー. "メインの森." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/thoreau/the-maine-woods.
- Chicagoヘンリー・デイヴィッド・ソロー. メインの森. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/thoreau/the-maine-woods.
何についての本か
一八四六年から五七年にかけて、メイン州北部の森へ三度分け入った記録。ソローがウォールデンとはまるで似ていない自然に出会う書でもある。
背景と歴史
ウォールデンは村から三キロの池だった。こちらは本物の森であり、その違いは肌で分かる。もっとも知られているのはカターディン山への登攀の場面だ。ソローは自分を拒む風景に出くわし、誰をも待たない純粋で非人間的な物質について、途方に暮れた数ページを書く。「接触！ 接触！ 我々は何者か。ここはどこか」。ほかはペノブスコット族の案内人たちとのカヌーの旅——とりわけジョー・ポリス。彼はここで類型ではなく、一人の人として現れる——そして樹木や河川、そしてすでにそれらを食い尽くしつつあった材木業についての正確な観察である。没後の一八六四年に刊行。もっとも飼い慣らされていないソローであり、今日の生態学でもっとも読まれるソローでもある。
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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.…