Cape Cod / Henry D. Thoreau ; edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer with an introduction by Robert Pinsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.

Contributor:

Moldenhauer, Joseph J., 1934-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. 1971 Works.

Writings of Henry D. Thoreau

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Travel--Massachusetts--Cape Cod.

Thoreau, Henry David.

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.

Travel.

Cape Cod (Mass.)--Description and travel.

Cape Cod (Mass.).

Massachusetts--Cape Cod.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiii, 235 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First Princeton classic edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2004.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

I. The Shipwreck 3

II. Stage-Coach Views 15

III. The Plains of Nauset 24

IV. The Beach 44

V. The Wellfleet Oysterman 62

VI. The Beach Again 80

VII. Across the Cape 101

VIII. The Highland Light 118

IX. The Sea and the Desert 139

X. Provincetown 167.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0691118426

9780691118420

OCLC:

54501046

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