Cape Cod was so rural in those days that Thoreau had to take a stagecoach from Sandwich to Orleans - staying in Sandwich for such a short time he said he only had “half a sandwich” (that’s naturalist humor for you). It is like traveling back in time to see what the Cape was like 170+ years ago. But I make an exception for the book Cape Cod. A few pages of Walden almost always guarantees me a sound sleep. I have often wondered why people take medication to sleep at night when they could just take Thoreau. I am not a big fan of naturalist writers in general, and specifically Thoreau. Thoreau, a native of Massachusetts, is best known for his book Walden. I was introduced to the idea of a Thoreau Walk by reading Cape Cod, a collection of essays by naturalist writer Henry David Thoreau on his trips to Cape Cod in the late 1840s and early 1850s.
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