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The Enduring Shore Cape Cod's Great Beach, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket are romantic stops on Schneider's chronological human and natural history. This 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 eye for story and Full description
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Review
"For anyone who wishes to know how the Cape and Islands came to be . . ." --Paul Theroux, "The New York Times Book Review"
"Quite simply, the most entertaining history about our part of the world that I have ever read." --Tom Dunlop, "The Vineyard Gazette"
"A charged must-read for anyone who ever fell asleep in American History." --"Esquire"
"Leapfrogs from natural history to social history to personal history in an engagingly unorthodox narrative." --"Elle"
For anyone who wishes to know how the Cape and Islands came to be . . . "Paul Theroux, The New York Times Book Review"
Quite simply, the most entertaining history about our part of the world that I have ever read. "Tom Dunlop, The Vineyard Gazette"
A charged must-read for anyone who ever fell asleep in American History. "Esquire"
Leapfrogs from natural history to social history to personal history in an engagingly unorthodox narrative. "Elle""
"For anyone who wishes to know how the Cape and Islands came to be . . ." --Paul Theroux, The New York Times Book Review
"Quite simply, the most entertaining history about our part of the world that I have ever read." --Tom Dunlop, The Vineyard Gazette
"A charged must-read for anyone who ever fell asleep in American History." --Esquire
"Leapfrogs from natural history to social history to personal history in an engagingly unorthodox narrative." --Elle
About the Author
Paul Schneider, author of the highly praised and successful The Adirondacks, a 1997 New York Times Notable Book, lives with his wife and child in Martha's Vineyard.
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- PublisherSt. Martins Press-3PL
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0805067345
- ISBN 13 9780805067347
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages384
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