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The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket [Englisch] [Gebundene Ausgabe]

Paul Schneider (Autor)
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  • Gebundene Ausgabe: 367 Seiten
  • Verlag: Henry Holt & Company (Mai 2000)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0805059288
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805059281
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 16,3 x 3,3 cm
  • Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen  Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (7 Kundenrezensionen)
  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.026.666 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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Cape Cod, and its associated islands, is a storied seascape that has seen come and go the Wampanoag people, the Pilgrims, the whalers. The summer residents now seem a stable presence, but their day, too, will pass when their real estate washes away in a few hundred or few thousand years. Schneider reports on the various inhabitants by kayaking about the sounds, bays, and harbors of the area and by recasting for general interests the voluminous oeuvre on local history. Unlimbering first a natural history of the glaciers that created Cape Cod, Schneider proceeds to the human history, the recorded portion of which began with William Bradford's religious sect. They arrived to a land depopulated by a plague. With the survivors, led by the Wampanoag natives, Bradford arranged a peace that held until King Philip's War of 1675. Schneider freshens these chapters of history with a meditative mix about landscape, history, and people. Despite its encrustations of modern amenities, the Cape Cod region remains an enchanting one, according to Schneider's admiring salute. Gilbert Taylor

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A history of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Even before the Pilgrims landed in 1620, Cape Cod and its islands promised paradise to visitors, both native and European. In Paul Schneider's sure hands, the story of this waterland created by glaciers and refined by storms and tides-and of its varied inhabitants-becomes an irresistible biography of a place.

Cape Cod's Great Beach, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket are romantic stops on Schneider's roughly chronological human and natural history. His book is a lucid and compelling collage of seaside ecology, Indians and colonists, religion and revolution, shipwrecks and hurricanes, whalers and vengeful sperm whales, glorious clipper ships and today's beautiful but threatened beaches. Schneider's superb eye for story and detail illuminates both history and landscape. A wonderful introduction, it will also appeal to the millions of people who already have warm associations with these magical places.
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Von Seano
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
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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very nice book 9. Juli 2000
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I went into Cabbages and Kings to buy this title and, on impluse, also picked up Reflections in Bullough's Pond, mostly because of the beautiful jacket shot. I had not heard anything about the book Bullough's Pond, whereas one can hardly miss hearing about Enduring Shore. What a surprise the two books were. Enduring Shore is a very pleasant read, it takes you along all of the familiar channels of Cape history and lore. It is very nicely written, but there are no surprises here. I do think it is more fun when a book surprises me, dazzles with a bit of lyrical prose, uses a turn of phrase to make me see familiar things in a new light, tells me something that I never knew, or makes me think of something in a fresh light. Bullough's Pond does all of that, Enduring Shore was more like having a friendly chat with an old acquaintance. No surprises, just a very pleasant way to spend a summer afternoon.
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I am a person who has to be "grabbed" and held by a book, or my life takes over and the book gets lost. Paul Schneider's book not only grabs you, it sings to you. It's more than a history; it's a love song to sea and land, and to the weird and complicated people who have made their lives on and out of Cape Cod and the Islands. What I love most about this book is how it goes into history and out again into the landscape. It allows me to be, in my time, intimate with the wind and waves. Schneider is a very funny writer -- the prose keeps you reading at a good clip. But he's also a poet. This book covers the range of emotions and human interest, it holds you with its passion and its love for the land.
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