A Place Apart: A Cape Cod Reader

by Robert Finch (Editor)

A Place Apart features essays and firsthand accounts of notable experiences throughout Cape Cod, including native Wampanoag creation myths; eyewitness accounts of the landing of the Pilgrims in 1620; candid stories of early life in the Old Colony; fascinating and often-harrowing accounts of the whaling and fishing industries; and so much more. The collection includes famous passages by and about such writers as Melville, Thoreau, Helen Keller, Edmund Wilson, and Kurt Vonnegut, among others.

Genres: Essays, Nature, Travel

464 pages, Paperback

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