The Outermost House [antikvár]

FOREWORD TO THE ELEVENTH PRINTINGWith the appearance of this edition of the outermost house, the book celebrates its twentieth anniversary and an eleventh printing. The text is unchanged, remaining what it was when first set down in long hand on the kitchen table overlooking the North Atlantic and the dunes, the little room full of the yellow sunlight reflected from the sands and the great sound of the sea.It is the privilege of the naturalist to concern himself with a world whose greater manifestations remain above and beyond the violences of men. Whatever comes to pass in our human world, there is no shadow of us cast upon the rising of the sun, no pause in the flowing of the winds or halt in the long rhythms of the breakers hastening ashore. On the outer beach of the Cape, the dunes still stand in their barrier wall, seemingly much the same, but to the remembering eye somewhat reshaped by wind and wave. The little house, to whom the ocean has been kind, has been·ii