Cape Cod

by Thoreau, Henry David (Author); Theroux, Paul (Introduction by)

• ISBN13: 9780140170023
• ISBN10: 0140170022
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

Cape Cod chronicles Henry David Thoreau's journey of discovery along this evocative stretch of Massachusetts coastline, during which time he came to understand the complex relationship between the sea and the shore. He spent his nights in lighthouses, in fishing huts, and on isolated farms. He passed his days wandering the beaches, where he observed the wide variety of life, and death, offered up by the ocean. Through these observations, Thoreau discovered that the only way to truly know the sea - its depth, its wildness, and the natural life it contained - was to study it from the shore. Like his most famous work, Walden, Cape Cod is full of Thoreau's unique perceptions and precise descriptions. But it is also full of his own joy and wonder at having stumbled across a new frontier so close to home, where a man may stand and "put all America behind him." Book jacket.

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	p. 3
Stage-Coach Views	p. 21
The Plains of Nauset	p. 35
The Beach	p. 65
The Wellfleet Oysterman	p. 91
The Beach Again	p. 117
Across the Cape	p. 149
The Highland Light	p. 174
The Sea and the Desert	p. 205
Provincetown	p. 247
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