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The outermost house : a year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod / Henry Beston.
LIBRA Special QH105.M4 B47 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beston, Henry, 1888-1968.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history--Massachusetts--Cape Cod.
- Natural history.
- Naturalists.
- Birds.
- Massachusetts--Cape Cod.
- Birds--Massachusetts--Cape Cod.
- Cape Cod (Mass.)--Description and travel.
- Beston, Henry, 1888-1968.
- Naturalists--Massachusetts--Biography.
- Massachusetts.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xxxv, 218 pages : map ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First Owl book edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : H. Holt, 1992.
- Summary:
- In 1925 Henry Beston traveled to Coast Guard Beach on the Atlantic coast of Cape Cod and set up a cottage where he intended to spend the summer. He ended up spending a year. The Outermost House contains his observations of the constantly changing shore.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1928.
- "An Owl book."
- ISBN:
- 0805019669
- 9780805019667
- OCLC:
- 25370940
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