A Place Apart: A Cape Cod Reader

by Robert Finch (Editor)

Gathers stories, poems, and excerpts from fiction and essays featuring Cape Cod, by such authors as Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Conrad Aiken, Stanley Kunitz, Edmund Wilson, Marge Piercy, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Henry James

Genres: Essays, Nature, Travel

435 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1993

About the author

Robert Finch has lived on and written about Cape Cod for forty years. He is the author of six collections of essays and co-editor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing.

Reviews

[Celeste Barr]

I really enjoyed this compilation of recent and historic writings about Cape Cod.

[Nancy]

A book of short stories or essays