Don Wilding
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English
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First known as Nauset, Eastham once reached across the eastern half of Cape Cod from Bass River to the tip of what is now Provincetown. The area was home to the Nauset tribe for thousands of years before exploration by Champlain and the Pilgrims, and it is now known as the "Gateway to the Cape Cod National Seashore." Whether it's the U.S. Life-Saving Service and its shipwreck rescues, Cape Cod's oldest windmill or tales of sea captains and rumrunners,...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"On the night of November 26, 1898, with a killer storm of historic proportions approaching, the steamer Portland set out from Boston. By the following night, the winter hurricane sent the vessel to the depths of Massachusetts Bay off Cape Cod, claiming nearly two hundred lives. On the Cape, a few dozen victims of the Portland disaster washed ashore, while ships piled up in harbors, high tides swept away railroad tracks, and the landscape and beaches...
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Publisher
The Henry Beston Society, Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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"For 85 years, Henry Beston's The Outermost House has been THE definitive book about Cape Cod. Now, Don Wilding, co-founder of the Henry Beston society, tells the story behind Beston's timeless nature classic." --P. [4] of cover.
