A Place Apart: A Cape Cod Reader
Author | : Robert Finch |
Publisher | : The Countryman Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2009-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0881508594 |
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A Place Apart features essays and firsthand accounts of notable experiences throughout Cape Cod, including native Wampanoag creation myths; eyewitness accounts of the landing of the Pilgrims in 1620; candid stories of early life in the Old Colony; fascinating and often-harrowing accounts of the whaling and fishing industries; and so much more. The collection includes famous passages by and about such writers as Melville, Thoreau, Helen Keller, Edmund Wilson, and Kurt Vonnegut, among others.