Cape Cod

Cape Cod

Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862

Sound recording - 2000

Compiled from magazine articles published in the 1850s after his death, Cape Cod details several short trips Thoreau made to "the bare and bended arm of Massachusetts" between 1849 and 1855. "He went to the Cape out of curiosity," explains Paul Theroux, "but in the course of his travel a great thing happened: Thoreau, the woodsman and landlubber, discovered the sea." 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, lighthouse-keepers and ship captains, and their chronicles of exploration, settlement, and survival... on the Cape against the threats of the wild sea and of encroaching modernity.

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Subjects
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Travel > Massachusetts > Cape Cod.
Cape Cod (Mass.) > Description and travel.
Published
Ashland, Or. : Blackstone Audiobooks [2000]
Language
English
Corporate Author
University of California, Santa Barbara. Textual Center
Main Author
Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862 (-)
Corporate Author
University of California, Santa Barbara. Textual Center (-)
Other Authors
Joseph J. Moldenhauer, 1934- (-), Patrick Cullen
Edition
Unabridged
Physical Description
7 audio discs (approximately 8 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN
9780786158683
  • Foreword / by Robert D. Richardson
  • The shipwreck
  • Stage-coach views
  • The plains of Nauset
  • The beach
  • The Wellfleet Oysterman
  • The beach again
  • Across the Cape
  • The Highland light
  • The sea and the desert
  • Provincetown
  • A statement from the Walden Woods Project
  • Artist's statement.

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