Canoeing in the Wilderness

From the author of Walden comes this 1857 diary of a two-week sojourn amid the still-unspoiled woodlands of Maine. Thoreau, whose works serve as a foundation of modern environmentalism, traveled with a friend and Native American guide. He writes of camping by the waterside, waking to birdsong, enduring mosquitoes, and getting lost with grace and clarity that bring the American wilderness to vivid life.