Cape Cod (Annotated)

di Henry David Thoreau (Autore)

Jordan Pierce (Autore)

DigiCat, 2022

In Cape Cod, Henry David Thoreau transforms a series of excursions along Massachusetts's outer shore into a richly layered work of natural history, travel writing, social observation, and philosophical meditation. Published posthumously in 1865, the book records the peninsula's dunes, beaches, storms, wrecks, lighthouses, and maritime communities while attending closely to Native history, colonial memory, labor, commerce, and the precarious lives shaped by the sea. Thoreau's deliberately wandering structure and vivid, often aphoristic prose place the volume within the nineteenth-century tradition of American nature writing, yet its irony, intellectual independence, and resistance to conventional tourism distinguish it from a simple picturesque travel account. Like Walden, it makes landscape a testing ground for ethical and spiritual reflection, but here wilderness is dynamic, dangerous, and inseparable from human history. Thoreau (1817–1862), the Concord naturalist, essayist, abolitionist, and advocate of civil disobedience, drew upon repeated visits to Cape Cod beginning in the 1840s. His close observation of local ecology, combined with his interest in vernacular speech, regional custom, and the moral implications of economic life, reflects the larger intellectual project that informed his journals and major essays. The book's posthumous arrangement was shaped from manuscripts and published travel sketches, preserving both the immediacy of field experience and the reflective precision of his mature style. Cape Cod is especially recommended to readers interested in environmental humanities, American literary history, coastal ecology, and the relationship between place and conscience. It rewards slow reading: beneath its sensory descriptions lies a searching critique of progress, tourism, exploitation, and cultural forgetfulness.

• Autore: Henry David Thoreau, Jordan Pierce
• Curatore: , DigiCat
• Anno edizione: 2022
• Editore: DigiCat
• Formato: EPUB2 con Adobe DRM
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 8596547368212