Over 200 stunning color photos provide a unique perspective on life in and around Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The author/photographer presents vistas and places beyond well-known tourist attractions, boats, and lobster buoys to provide a more expansive look of Cape Cod. Enjoy colorful tours of Provincetown, Wellfleet, Provincelands, Nantucket, Orleans, Martha's Vineyard, Brewster, Eastham, Chatham, Harwich, Falmouth, Sandwich, Dennis, and Barnstable; scenic beaches at Cape Cod National Seashore, Dionis, Nauset, Red River, Lighthouse, and Outer Beach, with wildlife refuges, regional wildlife, harbors, lighthouses, lobster shacks, architectural gems, and much more. Everyone who loves life along the seashore will treasure this book

Moisture-loving hydrangeas find a perfect environment on Cape Cod and the Islands. The photographs in this book offer a look at the beautiful hydrangeas of all varieties that thrive here.

The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post). Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment.

Embark on an adventure through the wilds of the most-hidden and beautiful spots in the Cape Cod National Seashore, on land and by airplane, in over 125 gorgeous color photos. With 43,000 acres, there are plenty of wonderful locations to discover. Wide-angle views of the beautiful flora and fauna of the seashore, as well as the historic spots that dot the natural landscape, will bring seaside scenes, dramatic coastal sunsets, and sandy, pristine landscapes to your armchair and provide a guide for your own, first-hand explorations. Among the beauty spots revealed are Ballston Beach, the now abandoned Truro Air Force Base, Provincelands, the Outer Beach, Bound Brook Island, Fresh Brook, Pleasant Bay, and Nauset Marsh. The past is also revealed, with images of long ago shipwrecks, the remains of the Wellfleet Marconi Wireless station, and artifacts from archaeological excavations, both historic and prehistoric. Come explore the shore that four million visit annually and discover why they come.

Introduction. The memorial's vernacular arc between Berlin's Denkmal and New York City's 9/11 Memorial -- The stages of memory at Ground Zero: the National 9/11 Memorial process -- Daniel Libeskind and the houses of Jewish memory: what is Jewish architecture? -- Regarding the pain of women: gender and the arts of holocaust memory -- The terrible beauty of Nazi aesthetics -- Looking into the mirrors of evil: Nazi imagery in contemporary art at the Jewish Museum in New York -- The contemporary arts of memory in the works of Esther Shalev-Gerz, Miroslaw Balka, Tobi Kahn, and Komar and Melamid -- Utøya and Norway's July 22 memorial: the memory of political terror.

Combine a technological marvel, the natural beauty of Cape Cod, and arenegade drone pilot who finds art everywhere he looks, and the result is a photographic collection that's dramatic and sometimes dizzying. The culmination of three years of drone pilot Chris Gibbs's aerial journeys across one of the most striking land masses in North America, more than 150 select images capture the essence of what draws travelers from all over the world to Cape Cod: wildlife and weather, boats and beaches, famous landmarks and hidden gems. With their ability to hover at low altitudes and capture previously unseen subjects, drones explode conventional photographic limitations on perspective and composition. The mesmerizing colors and abstracted landscape and tidal patterns offer us an intimate view of this cherished national treasure.

Introduction -- Ancient Cape Cod -- Legendary miscreants -- The arctic explorer from Provincetown -- Fantastic creatures -- Murder most foul -- Gentle legends -- The disappearance of Billingsgate Island -- Village vignettes -- Unsolved mysteries -- Medical Maladies -- Haunted places -- Wampanoag tales -- Cape Cod oddities -- Ill-fated sea voyages -- Local legends -- Believe it or not -- Goblins and ghosts -- Inspirational legends -- The auctioneer and the air crash -- Hurricanes and other disasters -- UFO sightings: fact or fiction -- Cape eccentrics -- Legendary Hyannis Port.

"Finch is today’s best, most perceptive Cape Cod writer in a line extending all the way back to Henry David Thoreau." —Christian Science Monitor Weaving together Robert Finch’s collected writings from over fifty years and a thousand miles of walking along Cape Cod’s Atlantic coast, The Outer Beach is a poignant, candid chronicle of an iconic American landscape anyone with an appreciation for nature will cherish.

Essays on the natural history of the Cape Cod region document changes in the environment, and in the author's life. Spanning more than 20 years, these essays record changes not only in the natural environment of Cape Cod but in the writer's own life. Death of a Hornet is one man's elegant rendering of Cape Cod, a sandy, scrub-oaked, tough, and vulnerable spit of land reaching out into the Atlantic Ocean. These stories are natural adventures that Finch's previous readers have come to expect, as well as longer meditations on the future of the Cape's fragile environment, on living in one place for a long time, and on the limitations of human sympathy.