The Writings of Henry David Thoreau

Cape Cod

Henry David Thoreau author Joseph J Moldenhauer editor Edwin Moser editor Elizabeth Hall Witherell editor William L Howarth editor Carl F Hovde editor Kevin P Van Anglen editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Published:1st Jul '92

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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau cover

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.

"Cape Cod is Thoreau's sunniest, happiest book. It bubbles over with jokes, puns, tall tales, and genial good humor... Unquestionably the best book that has ever been written about Cape Cod, and it is the model to which all new books about the Cape are still compared."--Walter Harding, The Days of Henry Thoreau

ISBN: 9780691065328

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 595g

452 pages