[PDF] The Outermost House eBook

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1504081714

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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 spent his time trying to capture in words the wonders of the magical landscape he found himself in thrall to. In The Outermost House, Beston chronicles his experiences observing the migrations of seabirds, the rhythms of the tide, the windblown dunes, and the scatter of stars in the changing summer sky. Beston argued: “The world today is sick to its thin blood for the lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.” Nearly a century after publication, Beston’s words are more true than ever.

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1911590154

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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.

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781567921045

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A collection of writing by naturalist, Henry Beston.

Author : Nan Parson Rossiter
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1567924336

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In 1926 on Cape Cod, writer/naturalist Henry Beston, living in a little house named the Fo'c'sle, observes native and migratory birds and other wonders of nature as the seasons change. Excerpts from Beston's nature book "The Outermost House" are interspersed throughout the story.

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2013-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466844272

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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 natural world. He translates the philosophy of the Maine farmer into terms as applicable in Manhattan as on the Kennebee. One of the great classics of American nature writing, Northern Farm is inspiring reading and ranks as one of Beston's most memorable and lyrical works. HENRY BESTON (1888-1968) was the author of many books, including The Outermost House, White Pine and Blue Water, and The St. Lawrence.

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 28,81 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781567921885

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These reflections on herbs, gardens, and nature by naturalist/writer Beston (best known for The Outermost house, a record of a year spent on Cape Cod's beach) were first published in 1935 and are here lovingly reprinted letterpress with woodcuts by John Howard Benson and an introduction by Horticulture magazine editor Roger Swain. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Daniel G. Payne
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781567925494

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A masterful portrait of an essential and unexamined American writer.