The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
by:
Henry Beston (author)
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345334206 (0345334205)
Publish date: February 12th 1980
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Science,
Environment,
Nature,
Natural History,
Science Nature
This review was originally posted on amazon on April 6, 2005. I'm going to begin with a quote from the book:"Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins, she gives of her strength, sustaining them with her own measureless tremor...
audiobook
The prose is stately and old-fashioned, but Beston really has a way of vividly describing the rolling of the waves, the endless winds, and the stars on his silent beach. It's hard to imagine that there's no silence like that any more.
16 years ago
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