The Outermost House : A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod (Paperback)

from drausche

very interesting; great discriptions of nature; at times it's difficult to realize that Beston wrote this book back in the 1920's -- especially during references to "living in a world with too many lights" (not an exact quote). I gave the book to my 87 yr old aunt to read at the same time & she w...

from m.belljackson

Henry Beston's amazing recounting of his year on the outermost banks of Cape Cod is a revelation of nature in all its forces. It is a classic in the tradition of Thoreau and would be beloved by Emerson. As a companion to a seasonal gardening book, like THE GARDENER'S YEAR by Karel Capek, it would...

from henrique.maia

The world happens everyday, everywhere. We're often forgetful whence we came and we easily dismiss that seemingly distant background which is always there - nature. Henry Beston is the willing witness of a year round experience in the sands of Cape Cod beach. Humbled by the very spectacle of chan...

from SeriousGrace

Henry Beston built a two room house on Coast Guard Beach on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Originally the house was designed to be a summer getaway cabin but after two weeks Beston decided to see what it would be like to spend a year on the beach. During that time he wrote a memoir of the experience,...

from dasam

It is wonderful to ready good writing that celebrates the natural world without romanticizing it. Beston describes the ocean and its waves with a clarity of understanding and expression I have seldom read. His connection with the natural world and especially with birds reveals the wonders there w...