The Writings of Henry David Thoreau:
Cape Cod
Henry David Thoreau
Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer

Cloth | 1988 | $75.00 / £52.00
452 pp.

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Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod is here presented in the complete and definitive text. His trips to the Cape, he wrote, were intended to afford "a better view than I had yet had of the ocean." In the plants, animals, topography, weather, people, and human works of Massachusetts' long projection into the Atlantic, he finds "another world." Encounters with the ocean dominate the book, from the fatal shipwreck of the opening episode to the late reflections on the Pilgrims' Cape Cod 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.

Review:

"Cape Cod is Thoreau's sunniest, happiest book. It bubbles over with jokes, puns, tall tales, and genial good humor. . . . Unquestionably the best book that has ever been written about Cape Cod, and it is the model to which all new books about the Cape are still compared."--Walter Harding, The Days of Henry Thoreau

Other Princeton books by Henry David Thoreau:

• Cape Cod.
• Excursions.
• The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform.
• The Maine Woods.
• Walden.
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Early Essays and Miscellanies.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 1: 1837-1844.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 2: 1842-1848.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 3: 1848-1851.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 4: 1851-1852.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 5: 1852-1853.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 6: 1853.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 7: 1853-1854.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 8: 1854.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Maine Woods.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Reform Papers.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Translations.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Walden.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

Other Princeton books by Joseph J. Moldenhauer:

• Cape Cod.
• Excursions.
• The Maine Woods.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Early Essays and Miscellanies.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Maine Woods.

Series:

• Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
  Elizabeth Hall Witherell, Editor-in-Chief

Subject Areas:

• American Language and Literature
• Literature: Primary Works and Letters

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