Fortunately, this new audio recording reintroduces Beston, reminding us that poetry can indeed reveal as much about nature as science. 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 my… In 1926, Henry Beston spent two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod. The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod May 25, 2007, Silver Hollow Audio Audio CD in English - Unabridged edition The Outermost House Quotes. An illustration of two photographs. 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. An illustration of an audio speaker. Writing in the May/June 1999 issue of Fanfare Magazine, reviewer John Story wrote of "The Outermost House": "The music is simply lovely. ‎ The Outermost House is a classic of American nature literature. 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. Henry Beston (1888–1968) was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. The Outermost House Narrator, Soprano solo, SATB chorus with Flute (doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling english horn), 2 horns, piano, percussion (one player), 2 cellos, contrabass. Henry Beston Silver Hollow Audio $29.95 978-0-9793115-0-5 “Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science,” wrote Henry Beston in this 1928 classic, which chronicles the austere year he spent contemplating the natural world from a small cabin on the outermost beach of Cape Cod. Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies. Audio. “My house completed, and tried and not found wanting by a first Cape Cod year, I went there to spend a fortnight in September. I never realized descriptions of birds, and oceans could be so varied and expressive. The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, "written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty" (New York Herald Tribune)A chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach, The Outermost House has long been recognized as a classic of American nature writing. The outermost house : a year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. 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. The fortnight ending, 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. Perera's exquisite ability to set English words is everywhere in evidence as well as his extreme sensitivity to instrumental and vocal color put to service in a text. Software. An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk. Based on The Outermost House by Henry Beston, which recounts the experience of living for a year in a two-room cottage on the beach in Eastham, Cape Cod.

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