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

Title: Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket
Author: Paul Schneider
E: 1701524
ISBN: 0805059288
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 367
Section: History | United States | State & Local - General
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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.