A Cape Cod Notebook

Author : Robert Finch
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0978576691
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cape Cod Notebook written by Robert Finch and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of more than 50 exquisitely crafted radio essays, these short but poetic gems celebrate unique aspects of life on Cape Cod, especially the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Entranced by the island’s riches, Robert Finch takes the reader on a journey through the seasons in many well-known and beloved essays—including "Beach Ball," "Sea Dawn," "A Gratuity," "The Fish That Wouldn’t Die," "The Old Shell Game," and "Fire and Music"—that have the power to immediately connect the reader with the natural world of this region and that speak to the mysterious qualities of this peninsula that have drawn people to it for centuries.

Author : Robert Finch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593860554
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cape Cod Notebook 2 written by Robert Finch and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally read by the author on WCAI, the Cape and Islands National Public Radio station, these short but powerfully lyrical essays capture the essence of life, both human and natural, on this sandy peninsula."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Robert Finch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393348431
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod written by Robert Finch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994-05-17 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these compassionate, quietly evocative essays, Mr. Finch makes an eloquent case for dealing with nature not just as an extension of ourselves but as a world apart." -- New York Times Book Review When Common Ground was first published, Annie Dillard praised Robert Finch's essays for "their strength, subtlety, and above all their geniality." New readers will have a chance to discover that Finch's Cape Cod is indeed a wonderful place. The birds, fish, and animals that share the cape's fragile ecology on any given summer day with the human residents are described with the fresh eye of a first-rate nature writer.

Author : Robert Finch
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780879237424
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outlands written by Robert Finch and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1988-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen essays describe the author's experiences exploring the outer half of Cape Cod, and share his observations on nature, ecology, and the relationship between people and their environment.

Author : Robert Finch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 132400052X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outer Beach: A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore written by Robert Finch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant, candid chronicle of a beloved nature writer’s fifty-year relationship with an iconic American landscape. Those who have encountered Cape Cod—or merely dipped into an account of its rich history—know that it is a singular place. Robert Finch writes of its beaches: “No other place I know sears the heart with such a constant juxtaposition of pleasure and pain, of beauty being born and destroyed in the same moment.” And nowhere within its borders is this truth more vivid and dramatic than along the forty miles of Atlantic coast—what Finch has always known as the Outer Beach. The essays here represent nearly fifty years and a cumulative thousand miles of walking along the storied edge of the Cape’s legendary arm. Finch considers evidence of nature’s fury: shipwrecks, beached whales, towering natural edifices, ferocious seaside blizzards. And he ponders everyday human interactions conducted in its environment with equal curiosity, wit, and insight: taking a weeks-old puppy for his first beach walk; engaging in a nocturnal dance with one of the Cape’s fabled lighthouses; stumbling, unexpectedly, upon nude sunbathers; or even encountering out-of-towners hoping an Uber will fetch them from the other side of a remote dune field. Throughout these essays, Finch pays tribute to the Outer Beach’s impressive literary legacy, meditates on its often-tragic history, and explores the strange, mutable nature of time near the ocean. But lurking behind every experience and observation—both pivotal and quotidian—is the essential question that the beach beckons every one of its pilgrims to confront: How do we accept our brief existence here, caught between overwhelming beauty and merciless indifference? Finch’s affable voice, attentive eye, and stirring prose will be cherished by the Cape’s staunch lifers and erstwhile visitors alike, and strike a resounding chord with anyone who has been left breathless by the majestic, unrelenting beauty of the shore.

Author : Betsy Medvedovsky
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764354595
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cape Cod Notebook written by Betsy Medvedovsky and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's all about the beaches in this Cape Cod minimalist travel guide that is part journal, part field notebook. Divided by region, the notebook includes detailed maps and space for journal entries. Each page lists icons with key pieces of visitor information for the beaches, such as parking fees; food, shower, and boat ramp availability; and whether Rover is welcome, leaving plenty of space to capture beach memories in writing or sketches. The town maps highlight beach locations and note bike, pedestrian, car, and handicap access. Start your Cape Cod adventure with this ideal personal guide--an invitation to discover your own favorite stretch of sand under the sun, and a reminder of all the beaches visited and those left to explore.

Author : Robert Finch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781889833514
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Special Places written by Robert Finch and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by Cape Cod nature writer Robert Finch, inviting the reader to enjoy special places on the landscape of Cape Cod and the Islands.

Author : Henry Beston
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504081714
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outermost House written by Henry Beston and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic nature memoir of Cape Cod in the early twentieth century, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald Tribune). When Henry Beston returned home from World War I, he sought refuge and healing at a house on the outer beach of Cape Cod. He was so taken by the natural beauty of his surroundings that his two-week stay extended into a yearlong solitary adventure. He spent his time trying to capture in words the wonders of the magical landscape he found himself in thrall to. In The Outermost House, Beston chronicles his experiences observing the migrations of seabirds, the rhythms of the tide, the windblown dunes, and the scatter of stars in the changing summer sky. Beston argued: “The world today is sick to its thin blood for the lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.” Nearly a century after publication, Beston’s words are more true than ever.

Author : Robert Finch
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 0881508594
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Place Apart: A Cape Cod Reader written by Robert Finch and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Place Apart features essays and firsthand accounts of notable experiences throughout Cape Cod, including native Wampanoag creation myths; eyewitness accounts of the landing of the Pilgrims in 1620; candid stories of early life in the Old Colony; fascinating and often-harrowing accounts of the whaling and fishing industries; and so much more. The collection includes famous passages by and about such writers as Melville, Thoreau, Helen Keller, Edmund Wilson, and Kurt Vonnegut, among others.

Author : Michael Ferguson Head
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781434320643
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solstice written by Michael Ferguson Head and published by . This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this his first book, Bill Mena takes us on the personal journey of his life, or, as he says, of his two lives. Experience his transition from a semi-monastic life to coping with the pressures and pleasures of secular life. His early youth in the Americas; his schooling and ordination to the priesthood in Europe; his ministry in England and his return to America. Bill lets us into his personal struggle to resolve the conflict in which he found himself, a conflict between his loyalty and wish to serve in the Catholic Church, and his wish to find personal fulfillment. In his own words "The story that follows, then, is the story of my personal journey and rebellion...........my personal rebellion from a good student to a dedicated priest, to a frustrated cleric and eventually to a contented husband." The reader will get a glimpse into the life of one who has experienced equally the rewards of a compelling religious experience and the richness of secular life.