| The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Cape Cod Contributor(s): Thoreau, Henry David (Author), Van Anglen, Kevin P. (Editor), Hovde, Carl F. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0691065322 ISBN-13: 9780691065328 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $135.63 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 1988 Annotation: Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod is here presented in the complete and definitive text. His trips to the Cape, he wrote, were intended to afford "a better view than I had yet had of the ocean." In the plants, animals, topography, weather, people, and human works of Massachusetts' long projection into the Atlantic, he finds "another world." Encounters with the ocean dominate the book, from the fatal shipwreck of the opening episode to the late reflections on the Pilgrims' Cape Cod 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | United States - Northeast - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) |
| Dewey: 917.449 |
| LCCN: 88006928 |
| Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 5.28" W x 8.31" (1.32 lbs) 452 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod is here presented in the complete and definitive text. His trips to the Cape, he wrote, were intended to afford a better view than I had yet had of the ocean. In the plants, animals, topography, weather, people, and human works of Massachusetts' long projection into the Atlantic, he finds another world. Encounters with the ocean dominate the book, from the fatal shipwreck of the opening episode to the late reflections on the Pilgrims' Cape Cod 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. |