Henry Beston The Outermost House review, recensie en informatie memoir uit 1928 over een jaar leven op het strand van Cape Cod. Op 17 juli 2025 verschijnt als Pushkin Press Classic de heruitgave van de memoir The Outermost House, A
Henry Beston The Outermost House review en recensie
- “Beston reminds us of the transformative power of nature, its ability to heal, renew and sustain… Haunting, brave, breathtakingly beautifu.” (Isabella Tree)
- “Written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty.” (New York Herald Tribune)
The Outermost House
A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
- Auteur: Henry Beston (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: memoir uit 1928, natuurboek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Pushkin Press Classics
- Verschijnt: 17 juli 2025
- Omvang: 224 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de memoir van Henry Beston over Cape Cod
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.
A highly influential classic of American nature writing, The Outermost House is a vital precursor to today’s masters of the genre. Impassioned and richly layered, it is a matchless evocation of the spirit of a place and the enduring appeal of the wild.
Henry Beston was born on 1 June 1888 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. He died at the age of 79 in Nobleboro, Maine.