The Outermost House: A Year Of Life On The Great Beach Of Cape Cod [EPUB]
E-Book Overview
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.
E-Book Information
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Year: 25 July 2019
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Edition: Original retail
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Pages: 256
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Language: English
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Topic: 109
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Identifier: 1911590146,978-1911590149
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Asin: B07TL7P62K
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Commentary: “A colorful and ever-changing chronicle of movement that approaches the magnificent.” ―Boston Transcript
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Color: 1
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Cleaned: 1
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Paginated: 1
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Org File Size: 1,426,703
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Extension: epub
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Tags:
Nature & Ecology > Nature Writing & Essays