Cape Cod

Henry David Thoreau

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Parnassus Book Service
30 April 2021

Oceanography (seas); Human geography; The natural world, country life & pets; Walking, hiking, trekking; Classic travel writing

Series: Cape Cod Classics

A man may stand there and put all America behind him.

Wishing to get a better view of the ocean, Thoreau made three walking trips across the Cape beaches between October of 1849 July of 1855. Sometimes he walked alone, other times he travelled with his friend William E. Channing. He met local fishermen, wreckers, lighthouse keepers and other native Cape Codders. He watched ships wrecked by storms, stayed a night at the Highland Light, and engaged a Wellfleet oysterman in a long conversation about daily life amid the sands of Cape Cod.

He related stories of these encounters, as well as of the shipwrecks and the natural history of the Cape, in a series of lectures around New England. His sister Sophia, aided by his friend Channing, edited and published them as Cape Cod after his death. These tales of the Cape are balanced between the uncontrollable energy of the Atlantic Ocean and the fragile beauty of the landscape.

Anyone who, like Thoreau, believes Cape Cod to be a place of wonders and who secretly believes (or wants to believe) that the Cape is best visited during a storm in the fall or winter will find here the Cape when it was wholly unknown to the fashionable world .

By: Henry David Thoreau
Imprint: Parnassus Book Service
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 277g
ISBN: 9781732762657
ISBN 10: 1732762651
Series: Cape Cod Classics
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 30 April 2021
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was one of America's most influential thinkers, a naturalist who travelled and lived simply in New England, closely observing the natural world with the eye of a poet and a natural scientist. His nature writings include Walden (perhaps his best-known book), A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and his essay ""Walking"". Cape Cod was first published posthumously in Boston in 1865. Martin Luther King Jr described Thoreau's essay On Civil Disobedience as his first contact with nonviolent resistence."

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Cape Cod

Henry David Thoreau

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