For more than four decades, Bill Geagan was Maine's leading outdoors writer. Thisunforgettable book-part memoir, part ode to nature's wonders-recounts a youngGeagan's attempt to flee his family's conventional expectations by building a solitaryand self-reliant life in Maine's pristine wilderness. Long regarded by Mainers as thepinnacle of nature writing, this new 70 th Anniversary edition ensures that Nature ILoved will be read for generations to come.