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 ...
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 ...
THE RIVERS OF AMERICA Edited by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET and CARL CARMER As Planned and Started y CONSTANCE LINDSAY SKINNER Art Editor E.. ANDERSON ..... Books by Henry Beston THE OUTERMOST HOUSE HERBS AND THE EARTH AMERICAN MEMORY THE ST. LAWRENCE Rivers of America boohs already published are KENNEBEC by Robert P. Tristram Coffin UPPER MISSISSIPPI ...
Nature writer Henry Beston moved to Chimney Farm in Maine with his wife and two daughters in the 1930s, and this account of one year of his farming life there was published in 1948. Beston's main theme is that, as humanity has become separated from Nature, it has become less than truly human, and he stresses the importance of integrating the ...
Henry Beston's wife, Elizabeth Coatsworth, chose these excerpts from her husband's writing, and they provide a fine introduction to his works. The volume includes excerpts from two of his most famous works, THE OUTERMOST HOUSE and NORTHERN FARM. Coatsworth writes an insightful and revealing introduction.
Henry Beston edited this collection of nature writing in 1950. The anthology represents both fiction and nonfiction about Maine, and spans the 17th to the 20th centuries.
Nature writer Henry Beston moved to Chimney Farm in Maine with his wife and two daughters in the 1930s, and this account of one year of his farming life there was published in 1948. Beston's main theme is that, as humanity has become separated from Nature, it has become less than truly human, and he stresses the importance of integrating the ...
Among the blue-white shadows and graceful curves of freshly fallen snow, the first rains of spring, and the quiet 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 Kennebec. Northern Farm is among ...
Henry Beston Sheahan (1888-1968) was an American writer and naturalist, best known as the author of The Outermost House, written in 1925. He grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts and attended Adams Academy in Quincy before earning his B.A. (1909) and M.A. (1911) from Harvard College. After leaving Harvard, Beston took up teaching at University of Lyon. ...
Henry Beston Sheahan (1888-1968) was an American writer and naturalist, best known as the author of The Outermost House, written in 1925. He grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts and attended Adams Academy in Quincy before earning his B.A. (1909) and M.A. (1911) from Harvard College. After leaving Harvard, Beston took up teaching at University of Lyon. ...
Binding: HARD BACK BLUE
Publisher: FERRAR & RINEHART
Date Published: 1942
Description: A.Y. JACKSON. VERY GOOD TORN DJ. TORN DJ. 6 X 8. Dj has general shelf/edge wear, tanned spine, torn at spine, creased at edges. General shelf/edge wear, somewhat soiled at spine and edges. _PAB_ read more
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