The Enduring Shore A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket

The Enduring Shore is a comprehensive narrative of Cape Cod and the neighboring islands, melding the outsized personalities and dramas that characterize the region into a compelling montage of natives and explorers, pilgrims and beachcombers, religionists and revolutionaries. Here are clipper crews and whaling kings, castaways, summer people, subdividers, and poets. In Schneider's sure hands, the story of this waterland and its varied inhabitants becomes an irresistible biography of a place. Book jacket.

Paul Schneider, author of the highly praised and successful The Adirondacks, a 1997 New York Times Notable Book, lives with his wife and child in Martha's Vineyard.