A Place Apart
A Cape Cod Reader| By: | null |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton |
| Print ISBN: | 9780881508598 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781581576009 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.