Based on several trips to the Cape and originally published as a series of articles, Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod is a remarkable work that depicts the natural beauty of Cape Cod and the nature that surrounds it.
Presents essays from the author's three trips to Cape Cod, detailing a journey of discovering and understanding the complex relationship between the sea and the shore
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This is the story of the Bigelow and Hilyard clans, from their first years on America's shores, through the fury of her wars and the glory of her triumphs, to our own time when young Geoff Hilyard must fight to save both his marriage to a ...
Thoreau's description of his experiences exploring the Cape Cod area are accompanied by contemporary photos, prints, paintings, and maps
Cape Cod: Henry David Thoreau's Complete Text with the Journey Recreated in Pictures
They built a grist-mill there as early as 1606; also made bricks and turpentine on a stream, Williamson says, in 1606. De Monts, who was a Protestant, brought his minister with him, who came to blows with the Catholic priest on the ...
They are painted white or Indian red , or weathered to the same color as the gray rocks and ancient vinegary apple trees . There is no place on Cape Cod where you cannot smell the sea . The weather is so fair that people have a fit if ...
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' ...
This is the story of the Bigelow and Hilyard clans, from their first years on America's shores, through the fury of her wars and the glory of her triumphs, to our own time when young Geoff Hilyard must fight to save both his marriage to a ...
This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original.
This is the story of the Bigelow and Hilyard clans, from their first years on America's shores, through the fury of her wars and the glory of her triumphs, to our own time when young Geoff Hilyard must fight to save both his marriage to a ...
Wishing to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean, which, we are told, covers more than two-thirds of the globe, but of which a man who lives a few miles inland may never see any trace, more than of another world, I made a visit ...
Cape Cod: Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket
Cape Cod: Its People and Their History
John T. Cumbler's book offers an environmental, social, and economic history of Cape Cod told through the experiences of residents as well as visitors.
This new illustrated volume features the complete text of Thoreau’s classic work as published in Houghton Mifflin’s 1906 edition, the stunning photography of Scot Miller, and a foreword from the preeminent Thoreau biographer, Robert ...
Cape Cod: Gardens and Houses reveals the Cape's natural beauty, its rich architecture, and its magical gardens.
Reproduction of the original.
This is the story of the Bigelow and Hilyard clans, from their first years on America's shores, through the fury of her wars and the glory of her triumphs, to our own time when young Geoff Hilyard must fight to save both his marriage to a ...