The Maine Woods was the second volume collected from his writings after Thoreaus death Of the material which composed it the first two divisions were already in print Ktaadn and the Maine Woods was the title of a paper printed in 1848 in The Union Magazine and Chesuncook was published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1858 The book was edited by his friend William Ellery Channing
It was during his second summer at Walden that Thoreau made his first visi...