Henry Beston
Author
Publisher
St Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
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. 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...
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lavender, basil, hyssop, balm, sage, rue - the thinking gardener's guide to herbs. Writer/naturalist Henry Beston, a founding father of the environmental movement, believed that a strong connection to nature is essential. "It is only when we are aware ofthe earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live," Beston says in his now-classic Herbs and the Earth. In this book, Beston shares one of those connections as seen through the oldest group...