The outer beach
Subtitle: a thousand-mile walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic shore
By: Robert Finch
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780393081305
Subjects: Natural history; Travel; Physical geography
Description: Finch prevents a collection of essays that represent nearly fifty years and a cumulative thousand miles of walking along the storied edge of the Cape's legendary arm, the Outer Beach. He 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. 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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A view from the beach; title: Beginnings; title: Monomoy; title: North Beach/Pleasant Bay/Pochet; title: Nauset Beach; title: Nauset Marsh; title: Coast Guard Beach; title: Nauset Light Beach; title: Marconi Beach; title: LeCount Hollow to Cahoon Hollow; title: Newcomb Hollow; title: Ballston Beach to Higgins Hollow; title: Long Nook to Head of the Meadow; title: The Provincelands; title: Long Point; title: L'envoi: The rain of time.