The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston
The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
It is wonderful to ready good writing that celebrates the natural world without romanticizing it. Beston describes the ocean and its waves with a clarity of understanding and expression I have seldom read. His connection with the natural world and especially with birds reveals the wonders there while neither refusing to see the violence inherent nor impose a human ethic on that living way.