The listing, Cape Cod (Classic) by Henry David Thoreau (hard cover book) has ended.
Classical book, hard cover, old, not a new version, yellow ocher cover with no sleeve.
Product Description
Wishing to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean, which, we are told, covers more than two thirds of the globe, but of which a man who lives a few miles inland may never 6ec any trace, more than of another world, I made a visit to Capo Cod in October, 1840, another the succeeding June, and another to Truro in July, 1855 ; the first and -last time with a single companion, the second time alone. 1 have spent, in all, about three weeks on the Cape; walked from Eastham to Provincetown twice on the Atlantic side, and once on the Bay side also, excepting four or five miles, and crossed the Cape half a dozen times on my way; but having come so fresh to the sea, I have got but little salted. My readers must expect only so much ealtness as the land breeze acquires from blowing over an arm of the sea, or 13 tasted on the window9 and the bark of trees twenty milc3 inland, after September gales