Cape Cod (1865) Thoreau

by Henry David Thoreau

 

CAPE COD.

 

BY

 

HENRY D. THOREAU,

AUTHOR OF "A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS,"
"WALDEN," "EXCURSIONS," "THE MAINE WOODS,"
ETC., ETC.

 

Principium erit mirari omnia, etiam tritissima,
Medium est calamo committere visa et utilia,
Finis erit naturam adcuratius adlineare, quam alius [si possumus].

Linnæus de Peregrinatione.

 

 

BOSTON:

TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

1865.

 

 

CONTENTS.

		PAGE
I.	The Shipwreck	1
II.	Stage-coach Views	16
III.	The Plains of Nauset	27
IV.	The Beach	51
V.	The Wellfleet Oysterman	72
VI.	The Beach again	93
VII.	Across the Cape	118
VIII.	The Highland Light	138
IX.	The Sea and the Desert	163
X.	Provincetown	196

 

 

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by

TICKNOR AND FIELDS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

 

University Press:
Welch, Bigelow, and Company,
Cambridge.

 

 

MR. THOREAU'S WRITINGS.

Cape Cod.

1 vol. 16 mo.

The Maine Woods.

1 vol. 16 mo.

Excursions.

1 vol. 16 mo.

Walden, or Life in the Woods.

1 vol. 16 mo.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack.

1 vol. 12 mo.

TICKNOR AND FIELDS, Publishers.