Joseph C. Lincoln built a whole beloved career out of Cape Cod, and Galusha Bangs is his finest creation: an archaeologist of vast learning and not one grain of practical sense, who takes a room in a seaside boarding house to mend his health and instead finds himself defending his landlady's savings from a scheming spiritualist and a ruinous investment. The joke, and the charm, is that the vaguest man on the Cape turns out to be the only one truly paying attention. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates.