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"The Outermost House has long been recognized as a classic of American nature writing. This 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. Although Henry Beston had originally planned to spend just two weeks in his house on the shore, he was so possessed by the 'beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea ... that [he] could not go.' As he wrote then, and as many hold to be tru
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There's a lot of raving about the shortcomings of modern man in Walden. I like a diary of a recluse to be committed to peace. The chapter about the 'wardens of the cape' made me cry.
A taste from the edition I have (1956 Viking - compass books)
It is the privilege of the naturalist to concern himself with a world whose manifestations remain above and beyond the violences of men. Whatever comes to pass in our human world, there is no shadow of us cast upon the rising of the sun no pause in the fol ...more
A taste from the edition I have (1956 Viking - compass books)
It is the privilege of the naturalist to concern himself with a world whose manifestations remain above and beyond the violences of men. Whatever comes to pass in our human world, there is no shadow of us cast upon the rising of the sun no pause in the fol ...more
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