The Interrupted Forest
A History of Maine's Wildlands
Published on 1. October 2024
416 pages
978-1-68475-270-6 (ISBN)
Description
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. Loggers had cut it severely, European settlers had gnawed into it, and, much earlier, native people had left their mark. 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Rowman & Littlefield
File size
4,58 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-68475-270-6 (9781684752706)
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09/2002
Tilbury House,U.S.
€19.50
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Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Map List
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Personal Connection
- 1. Nowadays
- 2. The Tree-Huggers
- 3. The Properly Rightiists and Other Populists
- 4. Geology and Prehistory
- 5. The Historic Period Arrives
- 6. Meanwhile, in Europe
- 7. Earliest Settlement
- 8. The Puritan Influence
- 9. Life Becomes Complicated
- 10. King Philip's War and Other Calamities
- 11. War, War, and Some Peace
- 12. The Inexorable Turning of the Tide
- 13. Goodbye to France, Goodbye to England
- 14. Goodbye to Massachusetts, or Almost
- 15. The Lumber Capital of the World
- 16. The Romance of the Woods
- 17. Here Comes Industrialization
- 18. Conservation, Anyone?
- 19. The Doldrums
- 20. Megaprojects and Megacontroversies
- 21. And the Future Is-
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
