When Thoreau stood on the flank of Maine's Mt. Katahdin 1846, he was one of a handful of Americans who had ventured so deeply into the wilderness for the mere sake of seeing what was there. Today, hundreds of thousands of people--some with cell phones and GPS--stand where Thoreau did. For some, Katahdin is the long-awaited terminus of the Appalachian Trail, the 2,160-mile footpath from Georgia to Maine. For others, Maine's highest peak and the state park surrounding it are the closest they can come to wilderness--the Glacier National Park of the east. In North to Katahdin, Eric Pinder uses...
When Thoreau stood on the flank of Maine's Mt. Katahdin 1846, he was one of a handful of Americans who had ventured so deeply into the wilderness for ...
