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Cape Cod
by Thoreau, Henry David
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/F/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0940160242
- ISBN 13
- 9780940160248
- Seller
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About This Item
Parnassus Imprints, 1997-01-01. 1st Edn Thus, 1st. Imp.. Paperback. F/F/ND. Box X28 SOFTBACK ?UNCOMMON OUTSIDE THE USA.? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1997 (1884) * Publisher: Parnassus Imprints.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated, stiff card covers showing the headland and light-houses. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-used. FINE * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. No tanning. Some slight spotting to top page edges. FINE * Illustrations: None apart from one small woodcut to frontis. * Pages: 319 pp. text. i pp. blank at rear.* Product Description:- This edition is introduced by Robert Finch. It is the account of three walking trips that Thoreau made on Cape Cod in 1849, 1850 and 1855. Thoreau found a deep satisfaction in the simplicity of the Cape Codder?s ways, the bare beauty of the landscape and the ever-present ocean. With relish and good humour, he describes what he saw on his tramps about the windswept peninsula: remains of a shipwreck, windmills, sea-weed, sea creatures, the changing water in its various moods, ships, lighthouses, birds, the scrubby vegetation, and especially the people.?* This is a FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with minimal faults.* 0
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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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9048
- Title
- Cape Cod
- Author
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/ND
- Edition
- 1st Edn Thus, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0940160242
- ISBN 13
- 9780940160248
- Publisher
- Parnassus Imprints
- Place of Publication
- Marstons Mills, Massachusetts, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1997-01-01
- Pages
- 320
- X weight
- g
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