![]() ![]() ![]() In those days there were twelve coast guard stations along the 35-miles of Atlantic frontage along the eastern Cape. He had friends visit and bring food and supplies, but mainly it was the coast guard men who gave him company. He spent most of his time alone but the was not isolated. He decided to stay a year and write a book about his experience. There was no road in, so his food and supplies had to be brought in by backpack. It’s about 20 miles and a half-hour south of Provincetown. The house was near Eastham, kind of near the ‘wrist’ if you think of a map of Cape Cod as shaped like a flexed arm. ![]() So the author, an aspiring writer, bought 50 acres of land in the dunes of the Cape and built a two-room summer home. In the 1960’s this book was instrumental in getting the Cape Cod National Seashore established. The introduction tells us that Rachel Carson (Silent Spring, 1962) said that it was the only book that influenced her writing. This book, a follow-up in a sense to Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod (1865), was written in 1928 and it is an early naturalist/environmental work. Now via Interstate that trip takes a half-hour. I have fond memories of fishing with my father off the rocks of the canal. I grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, about an hour’s drive in those days from the Cape Cod Canal. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Kingsolver was born on April 8, 1955, in Annapolis, Maryland, to Virginia Henry and Wendell Kingsolver, a physician. Kingsolver's personal experiences and passions, as well as her love of the southwestern United States, deeply influence her writing. Although Kingsolver's characters tend to find themselves facing traumatic dilemmas, Kingsolver is able to interject humor, which lightens the tone and communicate the love, hope, and strength that is evident in the lives of people from all cultures and walks of life. Her protagonists tend to be resilient, sensitive females, who are successfully surviving the typical day-to-day struggles found in America. Thus, Kingsolver writes about current social issues such as the environment, human rights, and social injustice. ![]() ![]() Kingsolver cares deeply about the world in which she lives and the people in it, and her writing attempts to change the world - to make the world a better place in which to live. 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Why does it not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults, and do better than it would have them?” – Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedienceĭocuments of Freedom – Civil Discourse and Petitioningĭocuments of Freedom – The Civil Rights MovementĬivil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau (full version) But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. ![]() They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. “Unjust laws exist shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has received much honor from his books and was acclaimed by the Guinness world Book of records for the most translated book by a living author.Ĭoelho was raised by devout catholic parents and at the age of 17, with the rebellious nature and determination akin to any adolescent, he expressed his ambition of becoming a writer. However it was his book, The Alchemist, that ultimately made him famous internationally. In 1987, he published The Pilgrimage which detailed about his spiritual awakening in Spain. His first book, Hell Archives was published when he was 35 years of age it didn’t receive much acclaim. 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