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Title: Canoeing in the wilderness

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Editor: Clifton Johnson

Illustrator: Will Hammell

Release date: January 17, 2011 [eBook #34990]
Most recently updated: February 10, 2022

Language: English

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CANOEING
IN THE
WILDERNESS

HENRY D. THOREAU

By Clifton Johnson

BATTLEGROUND ADVENTURES. Illustrated.
A BOOK OF FAIRY-TALE FOXES. Illustrated.
A BOOK OF FAIRY-TALE BEARS. Illustrated.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Boston and New York

CANOEING IN THE
WILDERNESS

The Indian Guide’s Evening Prayer (page 59) The Indian Guide’s Evening Prayer (page 59)

CANOEING IN THE
WILDERNESS

By HENRY D. THOREAU

EDITED BY
CLIFTON JOHNSON

ILLUSTRATED BY
WILL HAMMELL

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1916

COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published April 1916

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Indian Guide’s Evening Prayer

The Stage on the Road to Moosehead Lake

Making a Camp in the Streamside Woodland

The Red Squirrel

Coming down the Rapids

Shooting the Moose

Carrying round the Falls