by Bill Geagan (Author), Dee Dauphinee (Foreword by), Paul Kelleher (Introduction by)

For more than four decades, Bill Geagan was Maine's leading outdoors writer. This

unforgettable book-part memoir, part ode to nature's wonders-recounts a young

Geagan's attempt to flee his family's conventional expectations by building a solitary

and self-reliant life in Maine's pristine wilderness. Long regarded by Mainers as the

pinnacle of nature writing, this new 70 th Anniversary edition ensures that Nature I

Loved will be read for generations to come.