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The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
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From the fatal shipwreck of the opening episode to the late reflections on the Pilgrims' Cape Cod landing and reconnaissance, encounters with the ocean dominate Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod. His trips to the Cape, he wrote, were intended to afford "a better view than I had yet had of the ocean"; and in the plants, animals, topography, weather, people, and human works of Massachusetts' long projection into the Atlantic, Thoreau finds "another world." Throughout, Thoreau relates the experiences of fishermen and oystermen, farmers and salvagers, lighthouse-keepers and ship-captains, as well as his ow
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
Release date: 22 August 1988
ISBN-10 : 069100076X |
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Release date: 22 August 1988
ISBN-10 : 069100076X |
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