Cape Cod
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Acushnet River
Amelanchier
Anticosti Island
Arminius
Atlantic Ocean
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Barnstable Harbor
Bathing
Bay of Biscay
Billingsgate
Billingsgate Island
Blubber
Boston Harbor
Bread
Buzzards Bay
Cape Ann
Cape Cod
Carriage
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Caving
Clark's Island
Clothing
Cockle (bivalve)
Cod
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Deep sea
Desert
Editing
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Exploration
Fishery
Forecastle
Fresh water
Garret
Giant clam
Hearth
Highland Light
Hogshead
Islet
Lecture
Long Point Light
Manure
Massachusetts Bay
Meal
Mediterranean Sea
Menhaden
Mussel
Nauset
New France
North America
Norumbega
Ocean
Pamet River
Peat
Piety
Ponds
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Provincetown Harbor
Publication
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Sailing
Salicornia
Salt marsh
Sea monster
Shallop
Shrubbery
Small Pond (Innsbruck)
Springing
Suet
Tavern
Vegetable
Weather
Yacht
Product details
- ISBN 9780691118420
- Weight: 28g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jun 2004
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Robert Pinsky is Professor of English at Boston University and an editor of the weekly online magazine "Slate". He is the author of many books of poetry and literary criticism. He served two terms as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1997-2000.
