Cape Cod
by Henry David Thoreau
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bramhall House, 1951. Good copy. Fair jacket. In orange cloth covers with balck lettering on fornt cover and spine. TIght, clean, unmarked copy. Light foxing on edges. Light bumping to ends of spine. JAcket: Intact. Chipping of ends of spine, corners and some edges. Moderate shelf rubbing. In new protective jacket cover. Thank you for your patronage.. Hard Cover. Good/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Thoreau's classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea Cape Cod chronicles Henry David Thoreau’s journey of discovery along this evocative stretch of Massachusetts coastline, during which time he came to understand the complex relationship between the sea and the shore. He spent his nights in lighthouses, in fishing huts, and on isolated farms. He passed his days wandering the beaches, where he observed the wide variety of life and death offered up by the ocean. Through these observations, Thoreau discovered that the only way to truly know the sea—its depth, its wildness, and the natural life it contained—was to study it from the shore. Like his most famous work, Walden , Cape Cod is full of Thoreau’s unique perceptions and precise descriptions. But it is also full of his own joy and wonder at having stumbled across a new frontier so close to home, where a man may stand and “put all America behind him.” Part of the Penguin Nature Library Series Editor: Edward Hoagland With an Introduction by Paul Theroux
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002172
- Title
- Cape Cod
- Author
- Henry David Thoreau
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Publisher
- Bramhall House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- TRAVEL, CAPE COD
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
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