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Cape Cod (Penguin Nature Library)
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Cape Cod (Penguin Nature Library) Paperback - 1987

by Thoreau, Henry David

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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, he finds "another world."

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  • Title Cape Cod (Penguin Nature Library)
  • Author Thoreau, Henry David
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 319
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Date 1987-03-03
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 142303200036
  • ISBN 9780140170023 / 0140170022
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.83 x 5.01 x 0.75 in (19.89 x 12.73 x 1.91 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects Cape Cod (Mass.) - Description and travel, Thoreau, Henry David - Travel -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 86018636
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Summary

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

Cape Cod chronicles Henry David Thoreau’s journey of discovery along this evocative stretch of Massachusetts coastline, during which time he came to understand the complex relationship between the sea and the shore. He spent his nights in lighthouses, in fishing huts, and on isolated farms. He passed his days wandering the beaches, where he observed the wide variety of life and death offered up by the ocean. Through these observations, Thoreau discovered that the only way to truly know the sea—its depth, its wildness, and the natural life it contained—was to study it from the shore. Like his most famous work, Walden, Cape Cod is full of Thoreau’s unique perceptions and precise descriptions. But it is also full of his own joy and wonder at having stumbled across a new frontier so close to home, where a man may stand and “put all America behind him.”

Part of the Penguin Nature Library
Series Editor: Edward Hoagland
With an Introduction by Paul Theroux

From the publisher

Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The Transcendentalists' faith in nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for twenty-six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond. While living at Walden, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime: Walden (1854) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). Several of his other works, including The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, and Excursions, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.

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  • Library Journal, 07/01/1995, Page 128

About the author

Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The Transcendentalists' faith in nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for twenty-six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond. While living at Walden, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime: Walden (1854) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). Several of his other works, including The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, and Excursions, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.

Paul Theroux, an internationally acclaimed travel writer, is also the author of over two dozen novels and works of non-fiction. He divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian Islands.

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