Cape Cod
Henry David Thoreau
Leído por PhyllisV
Cape Cod is one of several excursion books by Henry David Thoreau. The travel itinerary frames his thoughts about geography, natural and local history, and philosophy. (Summary from Wikipedia) (10 hr 22 min)
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Well Written and Read....
Brenda H. Nelson
This book is well-written and is read well too, but this Thoreau sounds different from the one who wrote Walden: Life in the Woods. In Walden, he wrote spiritually of Nature. In this, he is often sardonic and critical of his fellow man. He seems to have lost his innocence and positive focus. He is amusing in his jaundiced eye, but I prefer the clear-eyed younger man. Plus he opens this book with a rather gruesome, emotionally-detached account of a shipwreck. The reader is... good...modulating her tone well; and reading without rushing. However, she mispronounces an oft-used word -- Eastham. Most places-names ending in "ham" are pronounced properly as "em". But Eastham is different. It is properly pronounced East-HAM...as in a cut of pork. She also mispronouces other words...autumnal , gunwale, Scylla, Elysian, Charybdis, etc. It jars the ear, and breaks the flow of the story. Another word she mispronounces is the author's name -- Thoreau. But then, most people do; it should be enunciated as in " thorough."
Gratitude for Contribution
absullivan
I am grateful to the narrator for her time, effort, and enthusiasm. Her reading was expressive of the author's voice and tone. I am thankful for all of us to have access to our cultural heritage. As a native of Cape Cod, I was bewildered to hear Thoreau's description of a desolate, lunar landscape of dunes too moist to hold great amounts of snow. There was a small farm just down the road from us. We went sledding and cross-country skiing every winter. Our house was surrounded by thick woods of pines and oaks. Our yard contained a mulberry tree that must be over 200 years old. Our house was bordered by a lichen-covered stone wall, and there seemed to be no shortage of large field stones in our soil. However, I am fascinated by his travelogue. Thanks!