At twilight, its rim lifted to the splendour in the west, the face of the wall becomes a substance of shadow and dark descending to the eternal unquiet of the sea at dawn the sun rising out of the ocean gilds it with a level silence of light which thins and rises and vanishes into day.” He is also apt to point out miniscule things as well. “It has many colours: old ivory here, peat here, and here old ivory darkened and enriched with rust. “The flux and reflux of ocean, the incomings of waves, the gatherings of birds, the pilgrimages of the peoples of the sea, winter and storm, the splendour of autumn and the holiness of spring-all these were part of the great beach.”īeston was especially aware of the light of the beach and the colors it revealed. His first chapter truly focuses on the beach. Since Beston writes in such an orderly manner, we shall simply follow his Table of Contents commenting on the richness of his observations. They then went on with their lives living on a farm in Maine. In 1929 he married the poet Elizabeth Coatsworth, to whom he was married for forty years. He lived there for a year, recording the change of seasons.
The Walden cabin was 10 X 16 Beston’s structure named the Fo’castle was 20 X 16. In 1928 he built a house right on the beach of Cape Cod. Henry Beston (1888-1868) decided to live close to nature as Thoreau did at Walden. Beston is able to probe the vastness of the sea and the heavens. This book speaks to me and for me because it uses poetic language. It focuses on the beach that is partly why I came to live by the waters of the Chesapeake. I have read about the ocean, its types of fishes, and the underwater geology, but this book is light on science.
I have read many Nature works, but this one is unique. The Outermost House is one of my favorite books.
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