Cape Cod (1865)
by Henry David Thoreau

Cape Cod is one of several excursion books by Henry David Thoreau. The travel itinerary frames his thoughts about geography, natural and local history, and philosophy.

The copy presented here is the first book edition, published in the United States in 1865. The individual chapters had previously appeared in Putnam's Monthly, beginning in 1855.

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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.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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