The Outermost Home

The seventy-fifth anniversary version of the basic e book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and sweetness” (New York Herald Tribune)

A chronicle of a solitary 12 months spent on a Cape Cod seashore, The Outermost Home has lengthy been acknowledged as a basic of American nature writing. Henry Beston had initially deliberate to spend simply two weeks in his seaside dwelling, however was so possessed by the mysterious fantastic thing about his environment that he discovered he “couldn’t go.”

As a substitute, he sat all the way down to attempt to seize in phrases the wonders of the magical panorama he discovered himself in thrall to: the migrations of seabirds, the rhythms of the tide, the windblown dunes, and the scatter of stars within the altering summer season sky. Beston argued that, “The world right now is sick to its skinny blood for the shortage of elemental issues, for hearth earlier than the palms, for water, for air, for the expensive earth itself underfoot.” Seventy-five years after they had been first revealed, Beston’s phrases are extra true than ever.