Publication Date
6-1-1998
Document Type
Article
First Page
2
Last Page
35
Abstract
Thoreau’s Maine Woods, a record of three trips made between 1846 and 1857, offers a combination of literary metaphor and precise botanical and topographical observation. Comparing Thoreau’s journals with recent advances in forest ecology, author Geoffrey Paul Carpenter reveals a detailed picture of the various ways in which logging activity changed the forests, lakes, and rivers of Maine. Carpenter demonstrates that a precise understanding of forest history depends not only on traditional statistical sources, but also on the subjective personal testimony found in the literary record.
Recommended Citation
Carpenter, Geoffrey Paul. "Deforestation in Nineteenth-Century Maine: The Record of Henry David Thoreau." Maine History 38, 1 (1998): 2-35. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainehistoryjournal/vol38/iss1/2