Stage-Coach Views | Thoreau’s Cape Cod

Tonight, we’ll read a selection from “Cape Cod” by Henry David Thoreau, published in 1908.

Thorough was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for “Walden”, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" , an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.

Thorough traveled to Cape Cod in Massachusetts four times, which inspired this “excursion” or travel book.

This episode originally aired in August of 2021. If you would like to hear more Thoreau on Snoozecast, check out “The Wild” from March of 2021, along with “Walden” parts 1 and 2, which both aired in 2019.

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