The Maine Woods: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Maine Woods, credited to Henry David Thoreau, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau. Read in English by Expatriate On August 31, 1846, twenty-nine-year-old Henry David Thoreau left his cabin on Walden Pond to undertake a railroad and steamboat journey to Bangor, Maine, from where he would venture with his Penobscot guide Joe Polis deep into the backwoods of Maine. This account of his expedition, some think, is a profounder exploration of the philosophical themes of the more famous "Walden" than is the latter book, at least revealing his fundamental perspectives in embryonic form. Of particular interest is his sympathetic and penetrating observation of the Indian nations of Maine, especially the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy. - Summary by Expatriate

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Maine Woods
• Author credits: Henry David Thoreau
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 9:25:32

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• Natural History
• native american history
• maine literature

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 01 - Ktaadn, Section 01 — 17:14
2. 02 - Ktaadn, Section 02 — 17:53
3. 03 - Ktaadn, Section 03 — 16:02
4. 04 - Ktaadn, Section 04 — 16:58
5. 05 - Ktaadn, Section 05 — 17:24
6. 06 - Ktaadn, Section 06 — 16:33
7. 07 - Ktaadn, Section 07 — 18:35
8. 08 - Ktaadn, Section 08 — 17:48
9. 09 - Ktaadn, Section 09 — 17:21
10. 10 - Chesuncook, Section 10 — 16:53
11. 11 - Chesuncook, Section 11 — 18:02
12. 12 - Chesuncook, Section 12 — 18:57
13. 13 - Chesuncook, Section 13 — 17:49
14. 14 - Chesuncook, Section 14 — 17:02
15. 15 - Chesuncook, Section 15 — 17:20
16. 16 - Chesuncook, Section 16 — 16:39
17. 17 - Chesuncook, Section 17 — 17:06
18. 18 - The Allegash & East Branch, Section 18 — 16:22
19. 19 - The Allegash &\ — 16:21
20. 20 - The Allegash &\ — 17:26
21. 21 - The Allegash &\ — 15:49
22. 22 - The Allegash &\ — 15:17
23. 23 - The Allegash &\ — 15:58
24. 24 - The Allegash &\ — 16:14

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