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.
