Cape Cod : Illustrated Edition of the American Classic

from Vasudeva

Thoreau provides a glimpse of the relationship between Americans and the seashore in the 19th century. Characteristically insightful, Thoreau's powers of observation and ability to draw insight are remarkable.

from AlanWPowers

This includes Thoreau's funniest, and his most plangent writing: plangent, early in "The Shipwreck," where he witnessed the fairly common wreck of a square-rigger from Europe, this one from Ireland. I do conflate this shipwreck with the one that took the life--and the great MS on Garibaldi-- of M...

from Othemts

This book collects essays Thoreau wrote on several trips to Cape Cod and was published after his death. Thoreau's great journeys were rarely far from his home in Concord, and yet the descriptions of every day detail are as if he'd traveled around the world. No more so than his writing about Cape ...

from bell7

This collection of essays on Cape Cod shows the unique stretch of Massachusetts land before it was a tourist attraction. Thoreau, often with a friend, took four trips out to Cape Cod and this collects some history, humor, and tales of the people he met on his journeys. Cape Cod was published in 1...