Rediscovering the Maine Woods

"No comparable collection—multidisciplinary, multivocal, inclusive of tribal as well as settler perspectives, academic and nonacademic perspectives—exists. In this respect as well as through its in-depth focus on The Maine Woods, a work almost never considered in its entirety, this collection opens a new dimension to the study of Thoreau's writings."—William Rossi, editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings

"This volume illuminates the interweaving of landscape and human history, of cultural change and nature's alteration, and of literature, philosophy, and the physical world. Like Thoreau's writings, these essays invite a deeper consideration of the interrelated meanings of words, histories, and place."—Rochelle L. Johnson, author of Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America's Aesthetics of Alienation

"With Rediscovering the Maine Woods: Thoreau's Legacy in an Unsettled Land, editor and scholar John J. Kucich has assembled a collection of essays worthy the complexity of Thoreau's sum of experiences and the composite richness of northern Maine."—Thoreau Society Bulletin