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

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.