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

    by Henry Beston ...
    In The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod, Henry Beston offers a lyrical, timeless meditation on nature, solitude, and the elemental rhythms of the sea. Over the course of a year, Beston lives in a modest dune-house he calls the Fo'castle, perched between ocean and marsh, where he observes storms, tides, migration, and the subtle life of the beach.Beston did not merely ... Read more

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  • Creative Evolution

    by Henry Beston ...
    The history of the evolution of life, incomplete as it yet is, already reveals to us how the intellect has been formed, by an uninterrupted progress, along a line which ascends through the vertebrate series up to man. It shows us in the faculty of understanding an appendage of the faculty of acting, a more and more precise, more and more complex and supple adaptation of the consciousness of living ... Read more

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  • The Outermost House

    A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

    by Henry Beston ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

    by Henry Beston ...
    East and ahead of the coast of North America, some thirty miles and more from the inner shores of Massachusetts, there stands in the open Atlantic the last fragment of an ancient and vanished land. For twenty miles this last and outer earth faces the ever hostile ocean in the form of a great eroded cliff of earth and clay, the undulations and levels of whose rim now stand a hundred, now a hundred ... Read more

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  • The Wardens of Cape Cod: The Achievements of the Coast Guard Patrol

    by Beston Henry ...
    There are two Cape Cods in the world, one the picturesque and familiar land of toy windmills, picnickers and motorists, the other the Cape which the sailors see, the Cape of the wild, houseless outer shore, the countless tragic wrecks, the sand bars and the shoals. This unknown Cape begins at Monomoy; Monomoy where the silver-gray bones of ancient wrecks lie in mouldering lagoons; it leaps the ... Read more

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  • The Starlight Wonder Book

    by Henry Beston ...
    In this book, readers can expect a series of enchanting tales and reflections inspired by the wonders of the natural world and the mysteries of the universe. The title suggests a sense of wonder and awe at the beauty of the night sky and the stars above, with each story likely exploring different aspects of the cosmos and our place within it.Beston's writing style typically includes lyrical prose, ... Read more

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  • The Outermost House

    A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

    by Henry Beston ...
    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 originally planned to spend just two weeks in his seaside home, but was so possessed by ... Read more

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  • Northern Farm

    A Glorious Year on a Small Maine Farm

    by Henry Beston ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • A Volunteer Poilu

    by Henry Beston ...
    A Volunteer Poilu is a firsthand account of Henry Beston’s experiences as an American volunteer in the French army during World War I. The term "Poilu" refers to French infantry soldiers, particularly those who fought on the front lines. Beston, inspired by a sense of duty and a desire to contribute to the war effort against the Central Powers, offers a personal narrative that captures both the ... Read more

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  • The Firelight Fairy Book

    by Henry Beston ...
    "Grown-ups" arrogate entirely too much to Themselves. I know this is so. I discovered it for a fact when I was not more than "knee-high to a grasshopper" myself. I knew, for example, that a certain amount of dirt on my face and hands in no way interfered with my enjoyment of my supper. The fact that my finger nails were not all They should have been had no bearing whatsoever upon The efficiency of ... Read more

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  • The Starlight Wonder Book

    by Henry Beston ...
    Once upon a time, during a great battle which was fought through the night in a tempest of lightning and rain, a brave young grenadier came upon one of the enemy lying sorely wounded on the field. Taking pity upon his foeman, the soldier bound up his wounds and carried him from the battle to the shelter of a little wood. Scarce had the wounded youth opened his eyes, when amid a blinding flash of ... Read more

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  • The Outermost House

    a Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by Henry Beston, Allan Burns ...
    Long hailed as a classic of American nature writing, Henry Beston's eloquent 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 1926 Beston retreated to the outer beach at Eastham in search of peace and solitude. What began as a two-week stay lengthened into a year spent keenly ... Read more

    $8.99 USD