Henry Beston

The author records his observations of nature during the year he spent in a Cape Cod beach house.

A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

The Outermost House

The author recounts the seasons of farm life and describes the relationship between the farmer and the land

A Glorious Year on a Small Maine Farm

The Northern Farm

The Firelight Fairy Book (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

Herbs and the Earth

A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

A collection of writing by naturalist, Henry Beston.

A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence

The Best of Beston

The Book of Gallant Vagabonds

Long recognized as a classic of American nature writing. This chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach was written in longhand at the kitchen table, in a little room overlooking the North Atlantic and the dunes. In 1964, the Cape Cod house was officially proclaimed a National Literary Landmark. In 1978, a massive winter storm swept it off its foundation and out to sea.

This collection of short stories is rich in detail and utterly absorbing. Each story is a fictitious, fairy-tale account of adventures, romance, daring and magic. The book is also filled with beautiful full-colour illustrations to help the stories come to life. The stories include: The Brave Grenadier, The Palace of The night, The Enchanted Bay, The Two Millers, The adamant door, The City of the Winter Sleep, Aileel and Alinda, The Wonderful Tune, The Man of the Wildwood, The Maiden of the Mountain, The Bell of the Earth and the Bell of the Sea, The Wood Beyond the World

The Starlight Wonder Book

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The St Lawrence

A retelling of Navaho Indian tales of twin boys growing up in their country of canyons, deserts, and mountains.

The Story the Indian Told

The Sons of Kai

The Firelight Fairy Book

Here is a volume that is true Maine--as eloquent of "downeast" as a bough of fir balsam, as the thunder of a wave of a rocky shore, as the lonely splendor of the northern lights in the sky behind Katahdin. In WHITE PINE AND BLUE WATER has been collected the best of three centuries of fact and fiction written about the wonderful country that is Maine. The recorded history of this northern land starts in the troubled era when the French and English battled each other and the Indians for sovereignty, told here in the words of early travelers, missionaries, soldiers. Then came the bloody days of revolution when Benedict Arnold marched on Quebec. The volume records the strange tale of two forgotten heroines, Maine women who accompanied their husbands on the trek through the Maine wilderness. As America grew, prosperity came to Maine through her ports. Her seafaring days are described by such authors as Rachael Field and Edwin Arlington Robinson, while 19th century men and women--Longfellow, Henry Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe and James Russell Lowell among others--relate their own experiences in the Maine of that era. The inland Maine of tall trees and great rivers comes to life in the words of writers such as Stewart Holbrook and Ben Ames Williams. In telling of the Maine of living memory Robert P. Tristram Coffin describes the ice trade on the Kennebec and Sarah Orne Jewett writes of an old seacoast mansion. F. Marion Crawford notes the entrance of the summer visitor at Bar Harbor in the eighteen nineties. The farmlands and farmers of Maine command the attention of Elizabeth Coatsworth, Gladys Hastings Carroll and E. B. White, while Ruth Moore tells of Maine fishermen and Louise Dickinson Rich describes that imposing man, the Maine guide. Henry Beston is a student of things American, a distinguished naturalist, and a Maine farmer. In preparing this volume he has been able to draw on a knowledge both of Maine literature and of the land itself. His wife is Elizabeth Coatsworth, the poet. Mr. Beston has written a number of books, including NORTHERN FARM, which state-of-Mainers put at the top of their own list.

A State of Maine Reader

White Pine and Blue Water

Good luck to the "Firelight Fairy Book." May it, like Scrooge's laugh in the "Christmas Carol," "be the father of a long, long line of brilliant" books of a like nature for the enjoyment of all true children, whether they be still at day school, or sitting in the high places of the world.

Illustrated

"... Reflecting the forest and the Indian, the colonist and the hearth, the seventeenth century wilderness captivities, the wars, emigrations and adventures of a people, also the winning of independence and the making of the Union, the life of the great rivers, the prairies, and the plains, the nation divided and re-united, & [i.e., and] the emergence of the present, together with loving studies and first accounts of may things uniquely American, the Indian corn, tobacco, the wild turkey, the rattlesnake, the passenger pigeon, and the plains buffalo ; set down in the vigorous prose of those who saw and experienced these things"--T.p.

Being a Mirror of the Stirring and Picturesque Past of Americans and the American Nation ... Together with Loving Studies and First Accounts of Many Things Uniquely American ... Set Down in the Vigorous Prose of Those who Saw and Experienced These Things

American Memory

A tree sees brighter and better things on the other side of the hill. A gnome helps the tree out and the tree has many adventures before it realizes what is best.

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