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In the North Woods of Maine

Elmer Erwin Thomas

In the North Woods of Maine

In the North Woods of Maine

Elmer Erwin Thomas

Two boys, fifteen and perhaps fourteen, disappear into the northern Maine wilderness in the winter of 1875 with nothing but their wits and a handful of traps. What follows is a raw, unsentimental account of survival at the edge of civilization: the bitter cold, the thin ice, the silent forests teeming with game, and the strange pride of providing for oneself when the world feels a thousand miles away. Elmer Erwin Thomas wrote these memories decades later, and he openly wonders whether time has lent them a touch of extra glory or whether every word of the cold and hunger and triumph is God's own truth. Either way, this memoir captures something modern life has almost entirely erased: the fierce freedom of boyhood, the education of the wilderness, and the particular loneliness of learning to be a man alone in the snow. It is spare, matter-of-fact, and utterly absorbing, like listening to an old-timer tell stories while the fire burns low.

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