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Out Lands Journeys to the Outer Edge of Cape Cod
Out Lands by Robert Finch
Hard Cover w/Dust Jacket
175 pages
Copyright 1986
CONTENTS
One That Got Away 3
The Tactile Land 14
Nighttracking 22
A Swallow Summer 28
The Seals Of Jeremy Point 40
Summer Flats 50
An Alewife Lesson 56
What The Stones Said 64
A Beach For All Seasons 72
Cutting In 82
North Beach Journal 89
Sea St. 116
The Sands Of Monomoy 123
An Advent Of Scallops 140
Star People 147
A Summer Place 154
Another Sunset 163
Ice Age Art 170
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
Robert Finch, Cape Cod naturalist and author of COMMON GROUND (Godine, 1981) and THE PRIMAL PLACE, returns to the Outer Beach and to the fragile peninsula he's made his own.
ON FOG-SHROUDED barrier island or deep in winter woods, Robert Finch is a vivid witness to our participation, whether as individuals or as communities, in the mysteries of natural experience.
There are moments in OUTLANDS where this investment of self in the land is dramatic and even risk-laden, as when the author isolates himself-almost without knowing why-from the mainland, on a spit of sand across a storm-bred, rushing cut of ocean water. Or when he finds himself, on a winter walk in search of seals along a stretch of the Outer Beach, "standing between a pack of agitated marine carnivores and an icy harbor, miles from the nearest human."
But, as Finch explains, deep acquaintance provides even the most common encounters with singular rewards: "One of the primary reasons this place yields so much to me so consistently is that I have invested so much of myself into it, physically, mentally, and emotionally . . . a thousand simple, repeated, physical acts have given this landscape a texture for me so that even its most casual aspect is filled, not with slick charm or abstract nostalgia, but with living, tactile memory."
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