![]() ![]() Walden Pond was a pleasant walk to his family home, where he lived for almost his entire life. ![]() The Maine woods were wilderness, but Thoreau emphasizes their proximity: they are only a matter of hours from easily accessible Bangor. The experience convinced him that he would never be able to live there on his own. The canoe trip of 325 miles he writes about in The Allegash and East Branch in The Maine Woods was his most ambitious trip-and a hard one-but the book shows that for all Thoreau’s enthusiasm for the wilderness he was sometimes lost and confused in the deep woods. ![]() He was one of the earliest climbers to the heights of Mount Katahdin, but that was a bold exception and he probably did not achieve the highest peak. He was never alone on these excursions always went with a friend or relative. In fact after 1837 he did so only for short periods-thirteen days on the Concord and Merrimack rivers, some visits to Cape Cod, three trips to the Maine woods, several months in Staten Island and in Minnesota. HENRY DAVID THOREAU was so emotionally attached to his home in Concord that he found it almost impossible to leave. ![]()
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