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

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The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald Tribune)

A chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach, The Outermost House has long been recognized as a classic of American nature writing. Henry Beston had firstly planned to spend just two weeks in his seaside home, but used to be so possessed by the mysterious great thing about his surroundings that he found he “could not go.”

Instead, he sat down to check out and capture in words the wonders of the magical landscape he found himself in thrall to: the migrations of seabirds, the rhythms of the tide, the windblown dunes, and the scatter of stars within the changing summer sky. Beston argued that, “The world as of late is in poor health to its thin blood for the loss of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water, for air, for the valuable earth itself underfoot.” Seventy-five years once they were first published, Beston’s words are more true than ever.

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