Vintage Reading
“For twenty miles this last and outer earth faces the ever hostile ocean in the form of a great eroded cliff of earth and clay, the undulations and levels of whose rim now stand a hundred, now a hundred and fifty feet above the tides. Worn by the breakers and the rains, disintegrated by the wind, it still stands bold.”
This is Cape Cod, and one September many years ago, the naturalist Henry Beston took up residence there, at its outermost edge, in a two-room cottage he’d designed and had built o...n Eastham Beach, facing the North Atlantic. To the south lay only dune. His sole neighbors were coast guardsmen at the Nauset lighthouse a couple of miles north. Twice a week, a friend took him into town for groceries. For drinking water, he drove a well directly down through the sand ... There, on that solitary dune, his little house “faced the four corners of the world.” There, Beston resolved to live a whole year, alone, and record the life of wind, sea, marsh, and dune he saw there.
The Outermost House, Beston’s record of that year, has been called “a classic of American nature writing.”MoreLess
This is Cape Cod, and one September many years ago, the naturalist Henry Beston took up residence there, at its outermost edge, in a two-room cottage he’d designed and had built o...n Eastham Beach, facing the North Atlantic. To the south lay only dune. His sole neighbors were coast guardsmen at the Nauset lighthouse a couple of miles north. Twice a week, a friend took him into town for groceries. For drinking water, he drove a well directly down through the sand ... There, on that solitary dune, his little house “faced the four corners of the world.” There, Beston resolved to live a whole year, alone, and record the life of wind, sea, marsh, and dune he saw there.
The Outermost House, Beston’s record of that year, has been called “a classic of American nature writing.”MoreLess
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