Nature I Loved

by Bill Geagan

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 70th Anniversary edition ensures that Nature I Loved will be read for generations to come.


Praise for Nature I Loved

“Anyone—and that must include just about everyone—who has ever harbored a yen to get away from it all will be able to read this [book] with sympathy and vast enjoyment.” —The Boston Globe

“Bill Geagan tells in much detail how his entire life in the woods was dependent upon this knowledge of nature and how he learned many things by trial and error. He discovered the music and beauty of nature as well as his latent ability in art and writing.” —The Baltimore Sun

“There’s something hauntingly beautiful, almost sacred about this kind of writing. It lingers in your mind long after the book is finished.” —The Bangor Daily News

291 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 19, 2021