The Outermost House

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outermost House written by Henry Beston and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long recognized as a classic of American nature writing. This chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach was written in longhand at the kitchen table, in a little room overlooking the North Atlantic and the dunes. In 1964, the Cape Cod house was officially proclaimed a National Literary Landmark. In 1978, a massive winter storm swept it off its foundation and out to sea.

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504081714
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outermost House written by Henry Beston and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic nature memoir of Cape Cod in the early twentieth century, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald Tribune). When Henry Beston returned home from World War I, he sought refuge and healing at a house on the outer beach of Cape Cod. He was so taken by the natural beauty of his surroundings that his two-week stay extended into a yearlong solitary adventure. He spent his time trying to capture in words the wonders of the magical landscape he found himself in thrall to. In The Outermost House, Beston chronicles his experiences observing the migrations of seabirds, the rhythms of the tide, the windblown dunes, and the scatter of stars in the changing summer sky. Beston argued: “The world today is sick to its thin blood for the lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.” Nearly a century after publication, Beston’s words are more true than ever.

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 1911590154
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outermost House written by Henry Beston and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Henry Beston (1888–1968) was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He wrote many books in his lifetime, including a memoir of his years in the volunteer ambulance corps in the First World War, an account of life in the US Navy and a book of fairy tales. The Outermost House, widely considered his masterpiece, was published in 1928. His Cape Cod house was named a National Literary Landmark in 1964, and it was destroyed by a huge winter storm in 1978.

Author : Nan Turner Waldron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey to Outermost House written by Nan Turner Waldron and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nan Parson Rossiter
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567924336
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fo'c'sle written by Nan Parson Rossiter and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2012 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1926 on Cape Cod, writer/naturalist Henry Beston, living in a little house named the Fo'c'sle, observes native and migratory birds and other wonders of nature as the seasons change. Excerpts from Beston's nature book "The Outermost House" are interspersed throughout the story.

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1466844272
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Northern Farm written by Henry Beston and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of his well-loved The Outermost House, Henry Beston's Northern Farm captures "the elusive magic of a year on a Kennebee farm...in truly beautiful prose" (Kirkus Reviews). Among the blue-white shadows and graceful curves of freshly fallen snow, the first rains of spring, and the quiet green of an early summer morning, Beston brings the reader into an inescapable alliance with the natural world. He translates the philosophy of the Maine farmer into terms as applicable in Manhattan as on the Kennebee. One of the great classics of American nature writing, Northern Farm is inspiring reading and ranks as one of Beston's most memorable and lyrical works. HENRY BESTON (1888-1968) was the author of many books, including The Outermost House, White Pine and Blue Water, and The St. Lawrence.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cape Cod written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567921045
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Beston written by Henry Beston and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writing by naturalist, Henry Beston.

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567921885
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herbs and the Earth written by Henry Beston and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1990 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These reflections on herbs, gardens, and nature by naturalist/writer Beston (best known for The Outermost house, a record of a year spent on Cape Cod's beach) were first published in 1935 and are here lovingly reprinted letterpress with woodcuts by John Howard Benson and an introduction by Horticulture magazine editor Roger Swain. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Kathryn Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0981557007
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plant Whatever Brings You Joy written by Kathryn Hall and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: