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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we\u2019ll read a selection from \u201cCape Cod\u201d by Henry David Thoreau, published in 1908. To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to\xa0snoozecast.com/plus.\n\nThoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for \u201cWalden\u201d, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.\n\nThoreau travelled to Cape Cod in Massachusetts four times, which inspired this \u201cexcursion\u201d or travel book.\n\nIf you would like to hear more Thoreau on Snoozecast, check out \u201cThe Wild\u201d from March of 2021, along with \u201cWalden\u201d parts 1 and 2, which both aired in 2019.\n\n\u2014 read by 'N' \u2014\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices