Cape Cod (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) [Idioma Inglés] (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, 17) - Softcover

Thoreau, Henry David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 069100076X ISBN 13: 9780691000763

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1993

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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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This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet and literary critic Robert Pinsky--himself a resident of Cape Cod--this volume contains some of Thoreau's most beautiful writings.

In the plants, animals, topography, weather, and people of Cape Cod, Thoreau finds "another world" Encounters with the ocean dominate this book, from the fatal shipwreck of the opening chapter to his later reflections on the Pilgrims' 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.

. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 069100076X
• ISBN 13: 9780691000763
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244
• Herausgeber: Moldenhauer Joseph J.