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Cape Cod

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Based on several trips to the Cape and originally published as a series of articles, Henry David Thoreau's Cape Codis a remarkable work that depicts the natural beauty of Cape Cod and the nature that surrounds it. Thoreau, a consummate lover of the outdoors and nature is right at home in the Cape and he details his excitement of the area with naturalist portraits of the indigenous species and animals. Any lover of nature or of Cape Cod in general will delight in this captivating depiction of the area in the early to mid 1800s.

Genre
adventure
Audience
adult
Length
short · 116 pages
Form
essays

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