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Title: The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket by Paul Schneider ISBN: 0-8050-6734-5 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Cape Cod Ramble
Comment: This is an excellent book about the Cape and its history.
There are lots of nuggets of interesting and original information. The book, however, suffers from its rambling and discursive format. It really is a ramble.
Rating: 3
Summary: Cape kid liked the book despite problems
Comment: I thought that Schneider attacks this book with the best of intentions and scores on many points, specifically the history of the Naussets, Champlain's adventure on the Cape and early whaling ships (including the Essex). Where he failed was in the telling: too often he jumped from event to event in a disjointed history or re-related events in a clumsy narrative. Too skimpy to be history, too spotty to cover the entire Cape, I liked this book despite its problems because it gave me some great historical perspectives of the beaches and sea where I live.
Rating: 4
Summary: Finally a readable book for local history
Comment: The amazing deluge of tourism each summer truly ignores the elaborate history of some of New England's most beautiful coastline. For many of us who live or travel there when time and traffic allow there is this fine book to fill in the grey areas.
Unfortunately, regional history is not as popular to most readers as a spy novel or biography. This book bounces between the author's journeys in Kayak along the islands and coastline and the chronological history of travellers and settlers to the coast. There are humorous accounts of indian encounters, misguided settlers and an all too unpleasant tale of life aboard the Mayflower. Not all as we had once been told in grammar school.
The endnotes are substantial and the book can at times seem more academic than entertaining. However, I passed this on to two friends and we have laughed and shared our favorite stories over beverages. A good book and a nice read.
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Title: Cape Cod (Penguin Nature Library) by Henry David Thoreau, Paul Theroux ISBN: 0140170022 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston ISBN: 080507368X Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Outer Lands: A Natural History Guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island by Dorothy Sterling, Winifred Lubell ISBN: 0393064417 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The House on Nauset Marsh by Wyman Richardson, Henry B. Kane ISBN: 0881504025 Publisher: Countryman Pr Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Nature of Cape Cod by Beth Schwarzman, Sandra Hogan McDermott ISBN: 1584651075 Publisher: University Press of New England Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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