The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Cape Cod (Henry David Thoreau Works) - Hardcover

Thoreau, Henry David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691065322 ISBN 13: 9780691065328

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1988

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Book by Thoreau Henry David

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"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

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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.

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• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0691065322
• ISBN 13: 9780691065328
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 452
• Herausgeber: Van Anglen Kevin P., Hovde Carl F., Moldenhauer Joseph J., Moser Edwin, Howarth William L., Witherell Elizabeth Hall