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Book Synopsis Historic Storms of Cape Cod by : Don Wilding
Download or read book Historic Storms of Cape Cod written by Don Wilding and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cape Cod has always been in the path of deadly hurricanes and ferocious storms. Unwelcome summer visitors include the "Long Island Express" Hurricane of 1938, the Great Atlantic Hurricane of 1944, the twin Hurricanes Carol and Edna in 1954, and Hurricane Bob in 1991. These storms destroyed countless homes and left several coastal communities under several feet of water. Surging tides carried away houses with residents inside who didn't survive and sank the Coast Guard lightship Vineyard in Buzzards Bay, killing all 12 crew members. Fall and winter brought the benchmark Blizzard of 1978, the nor'easter of January 1987, and the infamous "Perfect Storm" of October 1991 which delivered some of the highest tides ever seen on the Outer Cape. Local author Don Wilding revisits the Cape's most severe weather events and their devastating impact.
Book Synopsis Historic Storms of New England by : Sidney Perley
Download or read book Historic Storms of New England written by Sidney Perley and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Outermost House by : Henry Beston
Download or read book The Outermost House written by Henry Beston and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic nature memoir of Cape Cod in the early twentieth century, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald Tribune). When Henry Beston returned home from World War I, he sought refuge and healing at a house on the outer beach of Cape Cod. He was so taken by the natural beauty of his surroundings that his two-week stay extended into a yearlong solitary adventure. He spent his time trying to capture in words the wonders of the magical landscape he found himself in thrall to. In The Outermost House, Beston chronicles his experiences observing the migrations of seabirds, the rhythms of the tide, the windblown dunes, and the scatter of stars in the changing summer sky. Beston argued: “The world today is sick to its thin blood for the lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.” Nearly a century after publication, Beston’s words are more true than ever.
Download or read book Storm Surge written by William Sargent and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling tale of a natural disaster and its effects on a small New England community, now back in print
Download or read book Truro written by Richard F. Whalen and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: [Philadelphia?]: Xlibris, c2002.
Book Synopsis The Names of Cape Cod by : Eugene Green
Download or read book The Names of Cape Cod written by Eugene Green and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover: Why it's called Cape Cod. Which names are Native American and what they mean. How many early settlers gave their names to important places. How the sea influenced so many Cape names. How the Pilgrims left their names on Cape Cod.
Book Synopsis The Enduring Shore by : Paul Schneider
Download or read book The Enduring Shore written by Paul Schneider and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before the Pilgrims landed in 1620, Cape Cod and its islands promised paradise to visitors, both native and European. In Paul Schneider's sure hands, the story of this waterland created by glaciers and refined by storms and tides -- and of its varied inhabitants -- becomes an irresistible biography of a place. Cape Cod's Great Beach, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket are romantic stops on Schneider's roughly 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 today's beautiful but threatened beaches. Schneider's superb eye for story and detail illuminates both history and landscape. A wonderful introduction, it will also appeal to the millions of people who already have warm associations with these magical places.
Book Synopsis Historic Storms of New England by : Sidney Perley
Download or read book Historic Storms of New England written by Sidney Perley and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue of the classic book of historic New England storms, first published in 1891 by Sidney Perley (1858-1928).
Book Synopsis Cape Cod and the Portland Gale of 1898 by : Donald Wilding
Download or read book Cape Cod and the Portland Gale of 1898 written by Donald Wilding and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-22 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 were changed forever. Several Cape Cod mariners went to sea and never returned, caught in the gale's evil clutches. Local author Don Wilding revisits this disaster and the heroic deeds of the U.S. Life-Saving Service and the Cape's citizenry in what came to be known as "The Portland Gale."
Book Synopsis Coastal Flooding in Barnstable County, Cape Cod, Massachusetts by : Massachusetts. Water Resources Commission
Download or read book Coastal Flooding in Barnstable County, Cape Cod, Massachusetts written by Massachusetts. Water Resources Commission and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... Reviews elements affecting height of tides; indicates damage caused by flooding and methods of controlling property damage (regulation of land use, etc.); describes major storms since 1938 giving statistics for each; lists major storms prior to 1938 and flood tide height at selected stations since 1938 ...
Download or read book Cape Cod written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Barns of Cape Cod by : Blandon Belushin
Download or read book Barns of Cape Cod written by Blandon Belushin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 340 color photos display barns in the English and New England styles that dot the landscape of Cape Cod's fifteen townships, including many detail shots. Wooden and stone barns dating from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries appear, including barns for sheltering animals, grain, cranberries, strawberries, turnips, and asparagus.
Book Synopsis Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod by : Robert Finch
Download or read book Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod written by Robert Finch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994-05-17 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these compassionate, quietly evocative essays, Mr. Finch makes an eloquent case for dealing with nature not just as an extension of ourselves but as a world apart." -- New York Times Book Review When Common Ground was first published, Annie Dillard praised Robert Finch's essays for "their strength, subtlety, and above all their geniality." New readers will have a chance to discover that Finch's Cape Cod is indeed a wonderful place. The birds, fish, and animals that share the cape's fragile ecology on any given summer day with the human residents are described with the fresh eye of a first-rate nature writer.
Download or read book Cape Cod written by Henry C. Kittredge and published by Parnassus Press (IL). This book was released on 1987-05-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ghosts of Cape Cod by : Bill Russo
Download or read book The Ghosts of Cape Cod written by Bill Russo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic Cape Cod has 15 towns, stretching from Bourne to Provincetown. Each town and village has ghosts and many stories to tell about them. In this book, the author has chosen some of the lesser known, but fascinating apparitions, such The Ghost of the 13 Churches - Dr. Abner Hersey: Ahsoo, the Native American girl who sings with a voice of gold but has a face like a fallen log: and the 300 year old parson who sneaks into people's yards to snatch posies from their flower boats. These and many other legends are included by the author, who visited many of the sites himself and not only wrote the stories, but also took a number of the more than two dozens photos that are included in the E-book version. The photos are not included in the print edition. In one of the most fascinating parts of the book, the author describes in narrative and with pictures, the eerie, secluded burial ground of the tribe of Princess Scargo. Because this graveyard is virtually unknown, and hard to find, the author has given specific directions to the compelling site, that overlooks Scargo Lake. Stories from all four parts of Cape Cod are included in this 'must read' collection.
Book Synopsis Cape Cod, New & Old by : Agnes Rothery
Download or read book Cape Cod, New & Old written by Agnes Rothery and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shipwrecks of Cape Cod: Stories of Tragedy and Triumph by : Donald Wilding
Download or read book Shipwrecks of Cape Cod: Stories of Tragedy and Triumph written by Donald Wilding and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the wreck of the Sparrow-Hawk in 1626 to the grounding of the Eldia in 1984, Cape Cod's outer beach--often referred to as the "Graveyard of Ships"--saw the demise of more than three thousand vessels along forty miles of shifting shoals. The October Gale of 1841 claimed the lives of fifty-seven sailors from Truro, a devastating toll for a small seaside community. Survivors from the 1896 wreck of the Monte Tabor in Provincetown were arrested for a suspected mutiny. Aboard the Castagna, which stranded off Wellfleet in 1914, several sailors froze to death in the masts, while the crew's cat survived. Local author Don Wilding revisits these and many other maritime disasters, along with the heroic, and sometimes tragic, rescue efforts of the U.S. Life-Saving Service and Coast Guard.
