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A Place Apart: A Cape Cod Reader

Publisher Countryman Press
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ISBN / ASIN0881508594
ISBN-139780881508598
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Sales Rank1,275,913
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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A Place Apart features essays and firsthand accounts of notable experiences throughout Cape Cod, including native Wampanoag creation myths; eyewitness accounts of the landing of the Pilgrims in 1620; candid stories of early life in the Old Colony; fascinating and often-harrowing accounts of the whaling and fishing industries; and so much more.

The collection includes famous passages by and about such writers as Melville, Thoreau, Helen Keller, Edmund Wilson, and Kurt Vonnegut, among others.