The classic nature memoir of Cape Cod in the early twentieth century, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald Tribune). When Henry

A rediscovered classic of American nature writing: the poetic account of a solitary year observing the wild beauty of Cape Cod With an introduction by Philip Ho

The author records his observations of nature during the one year he spent in a Cape Cod beach house.

This is a lyrical record of a devoted naturalist's latter-day search for the essence and history of the hollowed Cape Cod site.

In 1926 on Cape Cod, writer/naturalist Henry Beston, living in a little house named the Fo'c'sle, observes native and migratory birds and other wonders of natur