Cape Cod

By:

Henry David Thoreau

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cape Cod Classics

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"A man may stand there and put all America behind him." Wishing to get a better view of the ocean, Thoreau made three walking trips across the Cape beaches between October of 1849 July of 1855. Sometimes he walked alone, other times he travelled with his friend William E. Channing. He met local fishermen, wreckers, lighthouse keepers and other native Cape Codders. He watched ships wrecked by storms, stayed a night at the Highland Light, and engaged a Wellfleet oysterman in a long conversation about daily life amid the sands of Cape Cod. He related stories of these encounters, as well as of the shipwrecks and the natural history of the Cape, in a series of lectures around New England. His sister Sophia, aided by his friend Channing, edited and published them as Cape Cod after his death. These tales of the Cape are balanced between the uncontrollable energy of the Atlantic Ocean and the fragile beauty of the landscape. Anyone who, like Thoreau, believes Cape Cod to be "a place of wonders" and who secretly believes (or wants to believe) that the Cape is best visited during "a storm in the fall or winter" will find here the Cape when it was "wholly unknown to the fashionable world".

Author Biography:

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was one of America's most influential thinkers, a naturalist who travelled and lived simply in New England, closely observing the natural world with the eye of a poet and a natural scientist. His nature writings include Walden (perhaps his best-known book), A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and his essay Walking. Cape Cod was first published posthumously in Boston in 1865. Martin Luther King Jr described Thoreau's essay On Civil Disobedience as his first contact with nonviolent resistence.

Release date Australia

April 30th, 2021

Author

Henry David Thoreau

Audience

Children / Juvenile

Pages

184

Series

Cape Cod Classics

Dimensions

152x229x11

ISBN-13

9781732762657

Product ID

34882549

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