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The Outermost House

A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

by Henry Beston


ISBN: 0783884494
ISBN-13: 9780783884493
Format: Hardcover

Summary

In 1925, Henry Beston had a two-room house built on the dunes of Eastham and lived there for a year. His vivid account of his solitary year on Cape Cod has become a classic of nature writing. In 1964, the house was declared a literary landmark by the U.S. government in 1964, but it disappeared into the sea during an abnormally high tide during a major blizzard in February 1978-10 years after Beston's death.

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Published date: 1998
Size: 6.5 x 9.75 inches
Weight: 1.15 pounds
Pages: 221

Publisher's Notes

In 1925 Henry Beston traveled to Coast Guard Beach on the Atlantic coast of Cape Cod and set up a cottage where he intended to spend the summer. He ended up spending a year. The Outermost House contains his observations of the constantly changing shore.

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