The outermost house : A year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod by Beston
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"The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod" by Henry Beston is a book published in 1928. It chronicles Beston's year spent living alone in a small cottage on the dunes of Cape Cod, observing the natural world around him. Through his isolation on the Great Beach, he documented the surf, wildlife, and changing seasons of this remote Atlantic shoreline. His meditations on nature and animals
became a literary landmark that influenced the creation of Cape Cod National Seashore. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Beston, Henry, 1888-1968 |
|---|---|
| Title | The outermost house : A year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod |
| Original Publication | Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928, pubdate 1929. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outermost_House |
| Contents | The beach -- Autumn, ocean, and birds -- The headlong wave -- Midwinter -- Winter visitors -- Lanterns on the beach -- An inland stroll in spring -- Night on the great beach -- The year at high tide -- Orion rises on the dunes. |
| Credits | Steve Mattern, Joeri de Ruiter and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 71.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | QH: Science: Natural history |
| Subject | Naturalists -- United States -- Biography |
| Subject | Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Description and travel |
| Subject | Beston, Henry, 1888-1968 |
| Subject | Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod |
| Subject | Birds -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 73328 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-73328-9 |
| Release Date | Apr 3, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1168 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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