The Outermost House: A Year Of Life On The Great Beach Of Cape Cod [EPUB]

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A rediscovered classic of American nature writing: the poetic account of a solitary year observing the wild beauty of Cape Cod With an introduction by Philip Hoare A fragment of land in open ocean, the outermost beach of Cape Cod lies battered by winds and waves. It was here that the writer-naturalist Henry Beston spent a year in a tiny, two-roomed wooden house built on a solitary dune, writing his rapturous account of the changing seasons amid a vast, bright world of sea, sand and sky. Transforming the natural world into something mysterious, elemental and transcendent, Beston describes soaring clouds of migrating birds and butterflies; the primal sounds of the booming sea; luminous plankton washed ashore like stardust; the long-buried, blackened skeleton of an ancient shipwreck rising from the dunes during a winter storm; a single eagle in the endless blue. With its rhythmic, incantatory language and its heightened sensory power, The Outermost House is an American classic that changed writing about the wild: a hymn to ancient, eternal patterns of life and creation.

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E-Book Information

• Year: 25 July 2019

• Edition: Original retail

• Pages: 256

• Language: English

• Topic: 109

• Identifier: 1911590146,978-1911590149

• Asin: B07TL7P62K

• Commentary: “A colorful and ever-changing chronicle of movement that approaches the magnificent.” ―Boston Transcript

• Color: 1

• Cleaned: 1

• Paginated: 1

• Org File Size: 1,426,703

• Extension: epub

• Tags: Nature & Ecology > Nature Writing & Essays