Description
Cape Cod’s Great Beach, Martha’s Vineyard, and Nantucket are romantic stops on Schneider’s more or less chronological human and natural history. His book is a lucid and compelling collage of seaside ecology, Indians and colonists, religion and revolution, shipwrecks and hurricanes, whalers and vengeful sperm whales, glorious clipper ships and these days’s beautiful but threatened beaches. Schneider’s very good eye for story and detail illuminates both history and landscape. An exquisite introduction, it’s going to also appeal to the millions of people that have already got warm associations with these magical places.