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

Loved this book. So beautifully written. I listened to an interview with his biographer, and he thinks he isn't as famous as Thoreau because he wasn't as politically active. He is often thought of as the father of the modern environmental movement. He comments on how we have lost touch with the elemental things of the earth.  His book saved the Cape landscape. (The house was washed away to sea in 1978.) 

What a perfect book to read on the first day of the new Bible Book Club cycle where I read Genesis 1. It is such a beautiful appreciation of God's creation. 

He was equally fluent in French and English. There is a rhythm in the way he writes that is beautiful. 

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

James Mustich

Henry Beston’s account of a year spent in a small house at Eastham Beach on Cape Cod is a stirring evocation of nature and of solitude. Though it first appeared in 1928, The Outermost House remains vivid and satisfying, with an imaginative reach and stylistic eloquence that set it apart from most nature writing.