The Outer Beach
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The Outer Beach A Thousand Mile Walk On Cape Cod S Atlantic Shore
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Author : Robert Finch
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2017-05-09
The Outer Beach A Thousand Mile Walk On Cape Cod S Atlantic Shore written by Robert Finch and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-09 with Nature categories.
A poignant, candid chronicle of a beloved nature writer’s fifty-year relationship with an iconic American landscape. Those who have encountered Cape Cod—or merely dipped into an account of its rich history—know that it is a singular place. Robert Finch writes of its beaches: “No other place I know sears the heart with such a constant juxtaposition of pleasure and pain, of beauty being born and destroyed in the same moment.” And nowhere within its borders is this truth more vivid and dramatic than along the forty miles of Atlantic coast—what Finch has always known as the Outer Beach. The essays here represent nearly fifty years and a cumulative thousand miles of walking along the storied edge of the Cape’s legendary arm. Finch considers evidence of nature’s fury: shipwrecks, beached whales, towering natural edifices, ferocious seaside blizzards. And he ponders everyday human interactions conducted in its environment with equal curiosity, wit, and insight: taking a weeks-old puppy for his first beach walk; engaging in a nocturnal dance with one of the Cape’s fabled lighthouses; stumbling, unexpectedly, upon nude sunbathers; or even encountering out-of-towners hoping an Uber will fetch them from the other side of a remote dune field. Throughout these essays, Finch pays tribute to the Outer Beach’s impressive literary legacy, meditates on its often-tragic history, and explores the strange, mutable nature of time near the ocean. But lurking behind every experience and observation—both pivotal and quotidian—is the essential question that the beach beckons every one of its pilgrims to confront: How do we accept our brief existence here, caught between overwhelming beauty and merciless indifference? Finch’s affable voice, attentive eye, and stirring prose will be cherished by the Cape’s staunch lifers and erstwhile visitors alike, and strike a resounding chord with anyone who has been left breathless by the majestic, unrelenting beauty of the shore.
Outer Beach
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Author : Suffolk County (N.Y.). Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980*
Outer Beach written by Suffolk County (N.Y.). Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980* with Beaches categories.
A Brief History Of Eastham
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Author : Don Wilding
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2017-07-17
A Brief History Of Eastham written by Don Wilding and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-17 with History categories.
First known as Nauset, Eastham once reached across the eastern half of Cape Cod from Bass River to the tip of what is now Provincetown. The area was home to the Nauset tribe for thousands of years before exploration by Champlain and the Pilgrims, and it is now known as the "Gateway to the Cape Cod National Seashore." Whether it's the U.S. Life-Saving Service and its shipwreck rescues, Cape Cod's oldest windmill or tales of sea captains and rumrunners, Eastham is truly rich in history and tradition. Author Don Wilding wanders back in time through the Outer Cape's back roads, sand dunes and solitary beaches to uncover Eastham's fascinating past.
Beach Studies On The Outer Beaches Of Cape Cod Massachusetts
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Author : Murray Felsher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Beach Studies On The Outer Beaches Of Cape Cod Massachusetts written by Murray Felsher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Beaches categories.
The Outermost House A Year Of Life On The Great Beach Of Cape Cod
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Author : Henry Beston
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1913-01-01
The Outermost House A Year Of Life On The Great Beach Of Cape Cod written by Henry Beston and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
East and ahead of the coast of North America, some thirty miles and more from the inner shores of Massachusetts, there stands in the open Atlantic the last fragment of an ancient and vanished land. 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. Many earths compose it, and many gravels and sands stratified and intermingled. It has many colours: old ivory here, peat here, and here old ivory darkened and enriched with rust. At twilight, its rim lifted to the splendour in the west, the face of the wall becomes a substance of shadow and dark descending to the eternal unquiet of the sea; at dawn the sun rising out of ocean gilds it with a level silence of light which thins and rises and vanishes into day. At the foot of this cliff a great ocean beach runs north and south unbroken, mile lengthening into mile. Solitary and elemental, unsullied and remote, visited and possessed by the outer sea, these sands might be the end or the beginning of a world. Age by age, the sea here gives battle to the land; age by age, the earth struggles for her own, calling to her defence her energies and her creations, bidding her plants steal down upon the beach, and holding the frontier sands in a net of grass and roots which the storms wash free. The great rhythms of nature, to-day so dully disregarded, wounded even, have here their spacious and primeval liberty; cloud and shadow of cloud, wind and tide, tremor of night and day. Journeying birds alight here and fly away again all unseen, schools of great fish move beneath the waves, the surf flings its spray against the sun. Often spoken of as being entirely glacial, this bulwark is really an old land surfaced with a new. The seas broke upon these same ancient bounds long before the ice had gathered or the sun had fogged and cooled. There was once, so it would seem, a Northern coastal plain. This crumbled at its rim, time and catastrophe changed its level and its form, and the sea came inland over it through the years. Its last enduring frontier roughly corresponds to the wasted dyke of the cliff. Moving down into the sea, later glaciations passed over the old beaches and the fragments of the plain, and, stumbling over them, heaped upon these sills their accumulated drift of gravels, sand, and stones. The warmer sea and time prevailing, the ice cliff retreated westward through its fogs, and presently the waves coursed on to a new, a transformed and lifeless, land. So runs, as far as it is possible to reconstruct it in general terms, the geological history of Cape Cod. The east and west arm of the peninsula is a buried area of the ancient plain, the forearm, the glaciated fragment of a coast. The peninsula stands farther out to sea than any other portion of the Atlantic coast of the United States; it is the outermost of outer shores. Thundering in against the cliff, the ocean here encounters the last defiant bulwark of two worlds.
The Outermost House
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Author : Henry Beston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Outermost House written by Henry Beston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Birds categories.
Henry Beston planned to spend only two weeks in his newly built cottage on the outer beach of Cape Cod. As summer drifted into autumn, however, he found himself so entranced by the landscape's rhythms and beauty that he could not bear to leave. Settled in his isolated house facing the North Atlantic, Beston spent a year immersed in the raw, elemental life of the great beach around him. Observing the migrations of seabirds, savage winter storms and the constantly shifting interactions between sea and shore, he wrote of the passing seasons in ecstatic, riveting detail.
The Outermost House
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Author : Henry Beston
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2019-07-25
The Outermost House written by Henry Beston and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A rediscovered classic of American nature writing: the poetic account of a solitary year observing the wild beauty of Cape Cod With an introduction by Philip Hoare A fragment of land in open ocean, the outermost beach of Cape Cod lies battered by winds and waves. It was here that the writer-naturalist Henry Beston spent a year in a tiny, two-roomed wooden house built on a solitary dune, writing his rapturous account of the changing seasons amid a vast, bright world of sea, sand and sky. Transforming the natural world into something mysterious, elemental and transcendent, Beston describes soaring clouds of migrating birds and butterflies; the primal sounds of the booming sea; luminous plankton washed ashore like stardust; the long-buried, blackened skeleton of an ancient shipwreck rising from the dunes during a winter storm; a single eagle in the endless blue. With its rhythmic, incantatory language and its heightened sensory power, The Outermost House is an American classic that changed writing about the wild: a hymn to ancient, eternal patterns of life and creation. Henry Beston (1888–1968) was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He wrote many books in his lifetime, including a memoir of his years in the volunteer ambulance corps in the First World War, an account of life in the US Navy and a book of fairy tales. The Outermost House, widely considered his masterpiece, was published in 1928. His Cape Cod house was named a National Literary Landmark in 1964, and it was destroyed by a huge winter storm in 1978.
Ports Of Long Beach And Los Angeles Phase 1 2020 Plan And Feasibility Study Channel Improvements And Landfill Development San Pedro Bay
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Ports Of Long Beach And Los Angeles Phase 1 2020 Plan And Feasibility Study Channel Improvements And Landfill Development San Pedro Bay written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with categories.
Journal Of The Senate Legislature Of The State Of California
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Author : California. Legislature. Senate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1942
Journal Of The Senate Legislature Of The State Of California written by California. Legislature. Senate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with California categories.
San Pedro Bay Los Angeles And Long Beach Harbors Deep Draft Navigation Improvements
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
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