The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket

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Paperback
2001
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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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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.

$22.71

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Publisher: Owl Books (NY)
Published: Jun 2001
ISBN 10: 0805067345
ISBN 13: 9780805067347

Media Reviews

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

Author Bio

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.