

Cape Cod
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Narrator: John Lescault
Unabridged: 8 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 09/05/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Narrator: John Lescault
Unabridged: 8 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 09/05/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American essayist, naturalist, philosopher, and poet. Born at Concord, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard, he began his career as a teacher. Through his older friend and neighbor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, he became a part of the Transcendentalist circle and one of that group’s most eloquent spokespersons. He is best known for his book Walden and his essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.”
Patrick Cullen (a.k.a. John Lescault), a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. He lives in Washington, DC, where he works in theater.
My hat trick – my third review of the three classic naturalist books about Cape Cod. (The other two are The Outermost House by Henry Beston - 1928, and The House on Nauset Marsh by Wyman Richardson – 1947.) In the edition I am reviewing, Beston wrote the introduction. This is very much a naturalist......more
A Cape Cod Walk With Thoreau Thoreau visited Cape Cod in 1849, 1850, and 1853. These trips formed the basis for a series of essays, several of which Thoreau published in magazines. After Thoreau's death, the essays were gathered together and published as "Cape Cod" in 1865. Thoreau's "Cape Cod" is dif......more
In his day as pioneers ventured West to settle America, it’s intriguing that, as a non-conformist, Thoreau ventured East. He views the shore of Cape Cod as a sort of neutral ground and an advantageous point for contemplating the world: “There is naked Nature, inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on......more
“Cape Cod is Thoreau’s sunniest, happiest book. It bubbles over with jokes, puns, tall tales, and genial good humor…Unquestionably the best book that has ever been written about Cape Cod, and it is the model to which all new books about the Cape are still compared.” Walter Harding, The Days of Henry Thoreau
“Illustrates the qualities that define [Thoreau’s] greatest works: his clarity and ease of style, and his concreteness as a naturalist and observer of nature and society. Patrick Cullen’s unforced and straightforward delivery…conveys both Thoreau’s strengths as a reporter and the secret of handling this author successfully in the audio format.” AudioFile