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Cape Cod

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The author records a series of walks and voyages along the Cape, combining close natural observation of shorelines, dunes, windmills, and shipwreck remnants with portraits of local inhabitants and their labors. The narrative alternates descriptive passages of beaches, bays, and lighthouses with practical anecdotes about walking, travel, and maritime danger, while reflecting on solitude, human resilience, and the shaping power of wind and sand. The work blends travelogue, natural history, and personal reflection to map both landscape and the author's responses to it.

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Title: Cape Cod

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Illustrator: Clifton Johnson

Release date: November 21, 2010 [eBook #34392]
Most recently updated: December 10, 2022

Language: English

Credits: Steve Mattern

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Cape Cod

by Henry David Thoreau

Author of “A Week on the Concord,” “Walden,”
“Excursions,” “The Maine Woods,” etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY
CLIFTON JOHNSON

NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1908
By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

Contents

INTRODUCTION
I. The Shipwreck
II. Stage-coach Views
III. The Plains Of Nauset
IV. The Beach
V. The Wellfleet Oysterman
VI. The Beach Again
VII. Across the Cape
VIII. The Highland Light
IX. The Sea and the Desert
X. Provincetown

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Clam-Digger (Photogravure)
Cohasset—The little cove at Whitehead promontory
An old windmill
A street in Sandwich
The old Higgins tavern at Orleans
A Nauset lane
Nauset Bay
A scarecrow
Millennium Grove camp-meeting grounds
A Cape Cod citizen
Wreckage under the sand-bluff
Herring River at Wellfleet
A characteristic gable with many windows
A Wellfleet oysterman
Wellfleet
Hunting for a leak
Truro—Starting on a voyage
Unloading the day’s catch
A Truro footpath
Truro meeting-house on the hill
A herd of cows
Pond Village
Dragging a dory up on the beach
An old wrecker at home
The Highland Light
Towing along shore
A cranberry meadow
The sand dunes drifting in upon the trees
The white breakers on the Atlantic side
In Provincetown harbor
Provincetown—A bit of the village from the wharf
The day of rest
A Provincetown fishing-vessel