Cape Cod [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Thoreau, Henry David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140170022 ISBN 13: 9780140170023

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 1987

Riassunto

Presents essays from the author's three trips to Cape Cod, detailing a journey of discovering and understanding the complex relationship between the sea and the shore

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L'autore

Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The Transcendentalists' faith in nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for twenty-six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond. While living at Walden, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime: Walden (1854) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). Several of his other works, including The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, and Excursions, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.

Paul Theroux, an internationally acclaimed travel writer, is also the author of over two dozen novels and works of non-fiction. He divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian Islands.

Product Description

Introduced by American poet and literary critic Robert Pinsky--himself a resident of Cape Cod--this volume contains some of Thoreau's most beautiful writings. In the plants, animals, topography, weather, and people of Cape Cod, he finds "another world."

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0140170022
• ISBN 13: 9780140170023
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 336