The Outermost House, Henry Beston
The Outermost House, Henry Beston
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The Outermost House
A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

Author: Henry Beston

Narrator: Brett Barry

Unabridged: 4 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/25/2007

Synopsis

The Outermost House is a classic of American nature literature.In 1926, Henry Beston spent two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod. He had not intended to stay longer, but, as he later wrote, "I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me that I could not go."Beston stayed for a year, meditating on humanity and the natural world. In The Outermost House, originally published in 1928, he poetically chronicled the four seasons at the beach; the ebb and flow of the tides, the migration of birds, storms, stars, and solitude. The landscape was his major character, and his writing provides a snapshot of the Cape, a place physically changed yet as soulful a century later. Like Henry D. Thoreau before him, and Rachel Carson after him, Beston was a writer of stunning beauty, importance and vision. Robert Finch once wrote of him, “His are burnished, polished sentences, richly metaphoric and musical, that beg to be read aloud.” Henry Beston lived from 1888 to 1968. His Cape Cod house was declared a National Literary Landmark in 1964, but was destroyed by a winter storm in 1978.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on June 08, 2019

The Outermost House by Henry Beston I grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, about an hour’s drive in those days from the Cape Cod Canal. I have fond memories of fishing with my father off the rocks of the canal. Now via Interstate that trip takes a half-hour. This book, a follow-up in a sense to Hen......more

Goodreads review by Alees on August 13, 2024

L'universo, dal castello di prua Fo’ Castle, o castello di prua, è il nome che Beston diede alla casa che fece costruire sulla spiaggia di Cap Code e dove trascorse un anno in solitudine. Un piccolo cottage frugale di sette metri per sei, provvisto però di dieci finestre. Una dichiarazione di intenti......more

Goodreads review by Celia on July 07, 2018

The Outermost House has long been recognized as a classic of nature writing. In 1925, Henry Beston built a two room cottage on the outer bank of Cape Cod as a vacation retreat. In September of 1926, he went to spend two weeks there, but "The fortnight ending, I lingered on, and as the year lengthened......more

Goodreads review by Vimal on May 04, 2016

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy And what delightful Poetry it was! Not mere wordplay and expression of feelings, but an extremely astute and microscopic observation and description of the very molecules,the ver......more

Goodreads review by Robin on February 27, 2025

When I told my sister I was reading this book on a recent trip to Cape Cod, she asked me how many times I’d read it. She remembers me purchasing this 1969 edition when we were kids. I guessed I’d read it in entirety at least 4 times. However, an unusual feature of this book is that you can open it a......more

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