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The Outermost House: A Year Of Life On The Great Beach Of Cape Cod
In hopes that you're taking the time to read some of the books we promote, this week we turn to The Outermost House written in 1928 by Henry Beston which chronicles his solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach.
If this book doesn't make you fall in love with Cape Cod and want to protect it, we're not sure what can.
Beston wrote: “Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.”
The Outermost House has long been recognized as a classic of American nature writing. Henry Beston had originally planned to spend just two weeks in his seaside home, but was so possessed by the mysterious beauty of his surroundings that he found he "could not go."
Instead, he sat down to try and capture in words the wonders of the Cape Cod he found himself in thrall to: the migrations of seabirds, the rhythms of the tide, the windblown dunes, and the scatter of stars in the changing summer sky.
Beston argued that, "The world today is sick to its thin blood for the lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot." Seventy-five years after they were first published, Beston's words are more true than ever.
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