The Writings of Henery David Thoreau

by Thoreau, Henry David; Moldenhauer, Joseph J.; University of California, Santa Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780691000763
• ISBN10: 069100076X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-08-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet and literary critic Robert Pinsky--himself a resident of Cape Cod--this volume contains some of Thoreau's most beautiful writings.In the plants, animals, topography, weather, and people of Cape Cod, Thoreau finds "another world" Encounters with the ocean dominate this book, from the fatal shipwreck of the opening chapter to his later reflections on the Pilgrims' landing and reconnaissance. Along the way, Thoreau relates the experiences of fishermen and oystermen, farmers and salvagers, lighthouse-keepers and ship captains, as well as his own intense confrontations with the sea as he travels the land's outermost margins. Chronicles of exploration, settlement, and survival on the Cape lead Thoreau to reconceive the history of New England--and to recognize the parochialism of history itself.

Author Biography

Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts. Of all his written works, only two were published in his lifetime Brian Robert Smestad, whose image of Wellfleet's Marconi Beach appears on the cover of this volume, explores and interprets nature through the lens of his camera

Table of Contents

The Shipwreck	3	(12)
Stage-Coach Views	15	(9)
The Plains of Nauset	24	(20)
The Beach	44	(18)
The Wellfleet Oysterman	62	(18)
The Beach Again	80	(21)
Across the Cape	101	(17)
The Highland Light	118	(21)
The Sea and the Desert	139	(28)
Provincetown	167	(50)
Index	217