Backwoods and Along the Seashore Author:Henry David Thoreau, Peter Turner (Editor) Includes two of Thoureau's lesser known selections, The Maine Woods and Cape Cod. They touch on Thoreau's record of his climb up Mount Katahdin, his arduous journey by canoe down the Allegash River, the deadly shipwreck he encountered on his first trip to Cape Cod -- which was then a wild and sparsely populated p... more »lace -- and his wonderfully colorful and humorous portrait of a Wellfleet oysterman.« less