This book is an anecdotal history of Cape Cod and its residents from colonial times to the present. For the curious as well as the student of Cape Cod history, Reflections of Cape Cod's interesting facts and anecdotes are entertaining and educational. From cranberries to cemeteries, from economics to elixirs, Reflections of Cape Cod is an historical "off the beaten path" journey.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Cape Cod" by Henry David Thoreau. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The poems and essays in Near the Wind reflect the physical beauty of "the gentle dunes, pitch pines, scrub oaks, and cranberry bogs of Cape Cod" and, equally important, explore the emotional and psychological impacts of this special place on the people who experience its unique environment and who feel its reflection in their individual psyches as well in their interpersonal relationships.

A surprise inheritance. A deadly hurricane. An ancient landscape under threat. When Olive Adams comes to Cape Cod to live in her aunt's old house, she finds her fortune shifting like the sands. Can she navigate a new life in a welcoming but mysterious house? As a dangerous hurricane barrels up the coast Olive struggles to save the land next door from destruction as she waits for her new love to return.