Monday, June 11 through Friday, June 15, 2001. Read by Karl Schmidt.
Subtly interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, this tale reveals Thoreau’s brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. “Cape Cod” portrays a landscape changing irreversibly even as he wrote. It is a brilliant and unsentimental account of survival on a barren peninsula in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay.
(Penguin ISBN-10: 0140170022)
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