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The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine's Wildlands
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by Neil Rolde
Sales Rank: 808215
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List Price: $20.00
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 320 pages
Published by: Tilbury House Publishers November 2001
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0884482340
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0884482345
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 5.8 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
Product Review
" stories of the past to shape a futureeducating readersMaine's rich historyurgescautious look whatto come." -- Northern Woodlands Magazine, Summer 2003
"there are few authors so well qualified to discusss what Henry David Thoreau saw as the 'uninterrupted forest.'" -- William David Barry, Maine Sunday Telegram, June 9, 2002
"there can be no question that Rolde's new book will set the standard among histories of the Maine woods." -- John Cole, Bangor Daily News, April 13-14, 2002
"this book is fun to read." -- Robert Kimber, Down East Magazine, July, 2002
Product Description
More than half of Maine has never been settled and lies in what is called the Unorganized Territories, millions 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, percentage wise, in the United States. But the "uninterrupted forest" that Henry David Thoreau first saw in the 1840s was never exactly uninterrupted, for loggers had cut it severely even before the Concord iconoclast's trip, settlers had gnawed into it, and the Indians, much earlier, had left their mark.
This is the story of these lands, wild then and, in many places, wild still, and the humans who used them and shaped them and fought over them. It is a story that starts in the present with the current controversies over land sales, clear-cutting and spraying, proposals for a gigantic National Park, the future of the pulp and paper and lumber industries, and no less than a secession movement in Northern Maine, and then seeks to answer the question: "How did this extraordinary region come into being?"
We go deep into geologic time to understand the land and the trees that grow on it, and then come the stories of people and events that have shaped it further: Native Americans, French, English, Puritans, settlers, loggers, speculators, great proprietors, surveyors, soldiers, squatters, industrialists, game poachers, conservationists, philosophers, artists, writers, sportsmen (and women), nature lovers, property rightists, preservationists, hermits, mystics, and picturesque characters of every stripe that have created and still create their own legends. Here is the background to see the Maine Woods-its wildlands-in perspective.
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