Dune Shacks Of Provincetown

Author : Jane Paradise
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764363610
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dune Shacks of Provincetown written by Jane Paradise and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Outermost Houses Step back in time and into a place of refuge and renewal. Thisinsider's tour of the duneshacks of Provincetown, Massachusetts, combines photos and text to bringto life the world of these rustic structures scattered across the untamed landscapes of Cape Cod National Seashore.Nearly 100 colorphotographs explore exteriors and interiors of the 19 shacks, as well as thebreathtaking dune landscapes and ocean that batter and beautify them. Accompanyingquotations share stories of the eclectic people who stayed in and cared forthese places of solitude and creativity, including Henry David Thoreau, Ann Patchett, Tennessee Williams, Mary Oliver, Norman Mailer, Marsden Hartley, and Josephine Del Deo. This photographic journey is sure to inspire and evoke wanderlust in us all.

Author : Cynthia Huntington
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683173
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Salt House written by Cynthia Huntington and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman writer's lyrical memoir of a summer with her artist husband in a remote Cape Cod dune shack

Author : Josephine Breen Del Deo
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764349782
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Watch at Peaked Hill written by Josephine Breen Del Deo and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a small group of intrepid adventurers, summer means living in a minimalist shack on the dunes at the tip of Cape Cod. For years these diminutive abodes have attracted artists, writers, and naturalists longing to escape the hectic hubbub of their day-to-day lives. The writer Josephine Breen Del Deo has been part of the dune shack community at Provincetown for over fifty years. In this memoir she describes not only the idyllic life, but also the struggle to maintain that life in the face of the constant impact of waves and shifting sands, as well as efforts of the government to remove the shacks and create a more "pristine" natural setting. In the process, she brings the history to life, setting it in the context of larger events and populating it with the interesting, often eccentric characters who have lived on the dunes.

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 : Karen Christel Krahulik
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814747620
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Provincetown written by Karen Christel Krahulik and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the beguiling coastal town chronicles the early history of Provincetown as a mid-nineteenth-century colonial village to its current stature as a bustling gay tourist destination.

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 : Michael Cunningham
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 125001770X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land's End written by Michael Cunningham and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the United States: [New York]: Crown Journeys, c2002.

Author : Mary Caperton Morton
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604698357
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aerial Geology written by Mary Caperton Morton and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Get your head into the clouds with Aerial Geology.” —The New York Times Book Review Aerial Geology is an up-in-the-sky exploration of North America’s 100 most spectacular geological formations. Crisscrossing the continent from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska to the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Mary Caperton Morton brings you on a fantastic tour, sharing aerial and satellite photography, explanations on how each site was formed, and details on what makes each landform noteworthy. Maps and diagrams help illustrate the geological processes and help clarify scientific concepts. Fact-filled, curious, and way more fun than the geology you remember from grade school, Aerial Geology is a must-have for the insatiably curious, armchair geologists, million-mile travelers, and anyone who has stared out the window of a plane and wondered what was below.

Author : Emily Donaldson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Landscape Report for Dune Shacks of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District written by Emily Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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