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Daniel G. Payne

Orion on the Dunes

A Biography of Henry Beston

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The first biography of the writer/naturalist, and one of the leading founders of the modern environmental movement, Henry Beston.In September of 1926, Henry Beston spent a two-week vacation in a Cape Cod shack he'd built high on an isolated stretch of dunes overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. As he later wrote, the fortnight ending, I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me that I could not go. The resulting book, The Outermost House, is universally considered a classic of American nature writing.In his later books, Beston explored the ways that the modern in… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-56792-549-4
  • EAN: 9781567925494
  • Produktnummer: 20758932
  • Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 500 S.

Über den Autor


Daniel G. Payne is a professor of English at SUNY College, Oneonta. His books include Voices in the Wilderness: American Nature Writing and Environmental Politics, Writing the Land: John Burroughs and His Legacy, and Why Read Thoreau's Walden?.

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