Interrupted Forest, The: A History of Maine's Wildlands
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (869 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0884482340 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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“There are few authors so well qualified to discuss what Thoreau saw as an ‘uninterrupted forest.” (Maine Sunday Telegram)
He lives in York, Maine. . Blaine; Unsettled Past, Unsettled Future: The Story of Maine Indians; The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine's Wildlands; and many other books. A former legislator and an award-winning historian,Neil Rolde is the author of Maine in the World: Stories of Some of Those from Here Who Went Away; Continental Liar from the State of Maine: James G
This book takes you deep into the past to understand the present, allowing you to hear the stories of the people and events that have shaped the woods and made them what they are today. Loggers had cut it severely, European settlers had gnawed into it, and, much earlier, native people had left their mark. B&W Maps. More than half of Maine has never been settledmillions of acres of quasi-wilderness. Add to this the thousands of farms that have grown back to woods since the Civil War, and you have the most forested state, by percentage, in the United States. But the “uninterrupted forest” that Henry David Thoreau first saw in the 1840s was never exactly that
Informative Aubrey This book reads much like a scientific journal or encyclopedia. I learned a lot from reading it, though I definitely think that you need an interest in Maine's history or geography to fully enjoy it.