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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Codby: Henry Beston  List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $23.36 You Save: $6.59 (22%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 508 EAN: 9780979311505 Edition: Unabridged Format: Audiobook, Unabridged ISBN: 0979311500 Label: Silver Hollow Audio Manufacturer: Silver Hollow Audio Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 5 Publication Date: June 01, 2007 Publisher: Silver Hollow Audio Release Date: May 25, 2007 Studio: Silver Hollow Audio Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 80 years 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. The Outermost House is a classic of American nature literature. It is now available, for the first time, on audio. *Including an interview with Beston biographer, Dr. Daniel G. Payne *Unabridged on 5 CDs / approximately 5 hours *Narrated by Brett Barry Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Bringing the Cape HomeAfter another family trip to Chatham I desperately wanted to bring Cape Cod home and preserve the atmosphere that takes residence in your soul when you give yourself fully to its powerful coastal calling. As daily obligations put a layer of fog over my memories it was very cathartic to end the day reading Henry Beston's observations in an Eastham cottage in the 1920's. Beston is an able writer with a poetic style who is able to capture the allure of Cape Cod. He effectively brings ... Read More Rating:  - The divine Outermost House!I have bought two copies of The Outermost House and am looking for a third. I keep giving my copy away to people who I feel will enjoy it as much as I did, and then I miss having my copy. It is a soothing and very visual tale of life on the beach at Cape Cod. Sometimes I long for that total serenity the author shares. A very enjoyable audiobook! Rating: - environmental treasureThis was one of my winter reading books. I enjoyed it very much because the writing was very clear and vivid. Henry spent a year on Cape Cod writing about the nature and how the season changes the land and his surroundings. He writes about a lot of the birds that migrate in and out of the region and raises some important environmental concerns about the delicate nature of our actions on the wildlife. I appreciated the light hearted feel of the writing and it stuck to the middle of the road as far ... Read More Rating:  - A Fabulous Book - But Skip the IntroductionThe Outermost House is a marvelous book; one of my all-time absolute favorites in the whole world. It's not, by the way, about outhouses, as one of my children wondered aloud upon hearing the title. Monsieur Beston has a terrific eye and an interesting style; his affection and respect for the interrelatedness of the natural world and concern that we humans forget our connection to it is akin to Thoreau's. This edition has a lengthy introduction by Robert Finch. Highly recommend skipping ... Read More Rating: - Great Listening!!!It's almost as if Henry Beston himself is reading his own words. The reader has a candor and tone that is absolutely perfect for this work and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this wonderfully executed piece from Silver Hollow Audio. I highly recommend this book to anoyne that enjoys either audio books, nature, or Cape Cod. I found myself quickly searching for the next disc as each one came to an end. The end of the last disc left me wanting for more - and with this set is a nicely done interview with ... Read More 
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