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-

University of California, Santa Barbara. Textual Center.

Series:

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

Writings of Henry D. Thoreau

Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. 1971

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Thoreau, Henry David.

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

Cape Cod (Mass.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st Princeton classic ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

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. 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / Pinsky, Robert

I. The Shipwreck

II. Stage-Coach Views

III. The Plains of Nauset

IV. The Beach

V. The Wellfleet Oysterman

VI. The Beach Again

VII. Across the Cape

VIII. The Highland Light

IX. The Sea and the Desert

X. Provincetown

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612639364

9780691000763

069100076X

9781400834129

1400834120

9781282639362

1282639366

OCLC:

665581263