=Note=: Rangers can provide first aid assistance. The closest health clinics are in Provincetown, Wellfleet, and Harwich, and the nearest hospital is in Hyannis. ############################################# Armchair Explorations [Illustration: (Beach scene with beach umbrella.)] =Eastern National Park & Monument Association, a nonprofit group that supports interpretive and scientific efforts at Cape Cod National Seashore, offers books, maps, and other Cape Cod items for sale at the park and by mail. For a free list of Cape Cod publications, including a special selection for children, write to the association at Salt Pond Visitor Center, Rt. 6, Eastham, MA 02642-2113. For a list of official handbooks about other national parks, write to the Division of Publications, National Park Service, P.O. Box 50, Harpers Ferry, WV 25425-0050.= Here is a partial list of books and booklets about Cape Cod and related subjects: O’Brien, Greg, editor. _A Guide to Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands._ Written in cooperation with Cape Cod Museum of Natural History. Penguin Books, 1990. Beston, Henry. _Outermost House._ Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1928. Reprint First Owl Book Edition, 1992. Burling, Francis P. _The Birth of Cape Cod National Seashore._ The Leyden Press, 1979. Clark, Admont G. _Lighthouses of Cape Code, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket: Their History and Lore._ Parnassus Imprints, 1992. Coulombe, Deborah A. _Seaside Naturalist: A Guide to Nature Study at the Seashore._ Prentice-Hall, 1984. Dalton, J. W. _The Life Savers of Cape Cod._ Barta Press, 1902. Reprint Parnassus Imprints, 1991. Finch, Robert. _Common Ground: A Naturalist’s Cape Cod._ David R. Godine, 1981; _Outlands: Journeys to the Outer Edges of Cape Cod_. David R. Godine, 1986; _The Primal Place_. W. W. Norton, 1983. Hay, John. _The Great Beach._ Doubleday, 1963. Kaye, Glen. _Cape Cod: the Story Behind the Scenery._ KC Publications, 1980. Kittredge, Henry C. _Cape Cod: Its People and Their History._ Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Reprint Parnassus Imprints, 1987. Martin, Kenneth. _Some Very Handsome Work._ Eastern National Park and Monument Association, 1991. Oldale, Robert. _Cape Cod and the Islands: The Geologic Story._ Parnassus Imprints, 1992. Penniman, Augusta. _Penniman Journal: A Whaling Voyage._ Eastern National Park & Monument Association, 1988. Quinn, William P. _Shipwrecks Around Cape Cod._ Lower Cape Publishing, 1973. Teal, John and Mildred. _Life and Death of the Salt Marsh._ 1969. Reprint Ballantine Books, 1991. Thoreau, Henry David. _Cape Cod._ Houghton Mifflin, 1864, and Penguin State, 1865. Reprint Parnassus Imprints with introduction by Robert Finch, 1984. Reprint Penguin Books with introduction by Paul Theroux, 1987. Waldron, Nan Turner. _Journey to Outermost House._ Butterfly & Wheel Publishing, 1991. Weinstein-Farson, Laurie. _The Wampanoag._ Chelsea House, 1989.