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Cape Cod

Name: Cape Cod
Author: Thoreau, Henry David , Johnson, Clifton
ISBN: 9781163210420

by Thoreau, Henry David, Johnson, Clifton

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1908. A minor work by Thoreau, Cape Cod illustrates the qualities that define his greatest works: his clarity and ease of style, and his concreteness as a naturalist and observer of nature and society. Compiled from magazine articles published in the 1850s after his death, these chapters detail several short trips he made to Cape Cod between 1849 and 1855. Contents: The Shipwreck; Stagecoach Views; The Plains of Nauset; The Beach; The Wellfleet Oysterman; The Beach Again; Across the Cape; The Highland Light; The Sea and the Desert; and Provincetown. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Thoreau's classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea. With an introduction by Paul Theroux. This is one of the first titles in Penguin's new Nature Library series.