Cape Cod / Henry David Thoreau
| dc.contributor | Royster, Paul Library of America New York |
| dc.contributor.author | Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | New York |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:56:04Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:56:04Z |
| dc.date.created | 1855-1857 |
| dc.date.issued | 1993-06-08 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1644 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1644 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1644 |
| dc.description.abstract | Literary Classics of the U.S. Written 1855-1857 |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 443 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Oxford Text Archive |
| dc.rights.uri | https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/page/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Philosophy, American -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.other | Travel literature |
| dc.title | Cape Cod / Henry David Thoreau |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 457500 |
| files.count | 2 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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<Text id=ThoCape>
<Author>Thoreau, Henry David</Author>
<Title>Cape Cod</Title>
<Edition>[Prose Works. Selections.] Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1985</Edition>
<Date>1855-1857</Date>
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<loc><locdoc>ThoCape851</locdoc><milestone n=851>
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<l><i>Principium</i> erit mirari omnia, etiam tritissima, </l>
<l><i>Medium</i> est calamo committere visa et utilia, </l>
<l><i>Finis</i> erit naturam adcuratius adlineare, </l>
<l>quam alius [si possumus]. </l>
<p> <i>Linnaeus de Peregrinatione.</i>
<p> I <i>The Shipwreck</i>
<p>Wishing to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean,
which, we are told, covers more than two thirds of the globe, but of
which a man who lives a few miles inland may never see any trace, more
than of another world, I made a visit to Cape Cod in October, 1849,
another the succeeding June, and another to Truro in July, 1855; the
first and last time with a singl . . .
