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Author Schneider, Paul, 1962- author.

Title The enduring shore : a history of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket / Paul Schneider.

Publication Info. New York : Henry Holt, 2001.
©2000.

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Location Call No. Status
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  917.449 SCH    Check Shelf
Edition First Owl Books edition.
Description x, 367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Note "A John Macrae/Owl book."
Reprint. Originally published: ©2000.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-343) and index.
Summary 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 -- Provided by the publisher.
Contents Capawack -- Cuttyhunk -- Vineyard Sound -- Naushon -- Tarpaulin Cove -- Chatham -- Nashawena -- Golgotha -- Provincetown -- Long Point -- Truro -- Plymouth -- Barnstable -- Manomoyik -- Sandwich -- The South Shore -- Nantucket -- Over the bar -- Sankaty head -- The gulf stream -- Clay Pounds -- Awaite Pawana -- Cape Verde -- The Horn -- Home! -- Into the blue -- South Pacific -- Out of the blue -- The great beach -- Oak Bluffs -- Scorton Creek.
Subject Cape Cod (Mass.) -- History.
Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod.
Nantucket Island (Mass.) -- History.
Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Nantucket Island.
Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) -- History.
Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Martha's Vineyard.
Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
Massachusetts -- Cape Cod. (OCoLC)fst01243977
Massachusetts -- Martha's Vineyard. (OCoLC)fst01243069
Massachusetts -- Nantucket Island. (OCoLC)fst01241286
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0805067345 (pbk.)
9780805067347 (pbk.)
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