Now in paperback, a classic collection of Cape Cod writings

edited by noted author Robert Finch

A Place Apart features native Wampanoag creation myths; eyewitness accounts of the first landing of the Pilgrims in 1620; candid, colorful stories of early life in the Old Colony; fascinating and often-harrowing accounts of the whaling and fishing industries; portraits of Provincetown’s Portuguese fishermen and Bohemian artists; and often-beleaguered residents who engage each year in the Cape’s summer rituals.

There are famous passages by, and about, famous writers: Melville’s description of his “Cape Cod Man,” Stubb, killing a whale; Thoreau’s unforgettable visit with “The Wellfleet Oysterman”; Helen Keller’s first encounter with the ocean; Edmund Wilson’s account of courting Edna St. Vincent Millay in a Truro cottage; Mary Heaton Vorse’s reminiscences of Eugene O’Neill and the Provincetown Players; Annie Dillard’s strange fable of the “Ship in a Bottle”; and Kurt Vonnegut’s charming tale about JFK, “The Hyannis Port Story.” This unique collection reflects a shared inspiration drawn from this incomparably lovely land by the sea.

Robert Finch is the author of five collections of essays and coeditor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing. He broadcasts a weekly commentary on National Public Radio and serves on the faculty of the MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. Finch lives in Wellfleet, MA.

May 2009

$21.95 (Can. $24.00) | paperback | 978-0-88150-859-4 | 5.5x8.25 | 464 pp

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