stories for children by naturalist author Henry Beston, set at his farm, Chimney Farm, in Maine, and illustrated by Maurice "Jake" Day.

Chimney Farm Bedtime Stories

Henry Beston

Blackberry Books

Northern Farm

a new edition of Henry Beston's classic Northern Farm - A Chronicle of Maine, chronicling a year in the late 1930s on the author's farm, Chimney Farm, in Nobleboro, Maine. This edition is a facsimile of the edition illustrated by Thoreau MacDonald, and all proceeds from this edition go to preserve and protect Beston's Chimney Farm.

In 1926, Henry Beston spent two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod. He had not intended to stay longer, but, as he later wrote, "I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me that I could not go." Beston stayed for a year, meditating on humanity and the natural world. In The Outermost House, originally published in 1928, he poetically chronicled the four seasons at the beach; the ebb and flow of the tides, the migration of birds, storms, stars, and solitude. The landscape was his major character, and his writing provides a snapshot of the Cape, a place physically changed yet as soulful 80 years later. Like Henry D. Thoreau before him, and Rachel Carson after him, Beston was a writer of stunning beauty, importance and vision. Robert Finch once wrote of him, His are burnished, polished sentences, richly metaphoric and musical, that beg to be read aloud. The Outermost House is a classic of American nature literature. It is now available, for the first time, on audio. *Including an interview with Beston biographer, Dr. Daniel G. Payne *Unabridged on 5 CDs / approximately 5 hours *Narrated by Brett Barry

The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

Sports & Outdoors

Silver Hollow Audio

A rediscovered classic of nature writing: the poetic account of a solitary year spent observing the wild beauty of Cape Cod\nWith an introduction by Philip Hoare\nA fragment of land in open ocean, the outermost beach of Cape Cod lies battered by winds and waves. It was here that the writer-naturalist Henry Beston spent a year in a tiny, two-roomed wooden house built on a solitary dune, writing his rapturous account of the changing seasons amid a vast, bright world of sea, sand and sky.\nTransforming the natural world into something mysterious, elemental and transcendent, Beston describes soaring clouds of migrating birds and butterflies; the primal sounds of the booming sea; luminous plankton washed ashore like stardust; the long-buried, blackened skeleton of an ancient shipwreck rising from the dunes during a winter storm; a single eagle in the endless blue.\nWith its rhythmic, incantatory language and its heightened sensory power, The Outermost House is an American classic that changed writing about the wild: a hymn to ancient, eternal patterns of life and creation.

Biographies & Memoirs

Philip Hoare

Professionals & Academics

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Chimney Farm Bedtime Stories

Northern Farm

The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod