Book
The Outermost House
by Henry Beston
- Published
- 1928
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Pages
- 256
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/317404.The_Outermost_House?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=4tIsasYjrw&rank=2
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 16–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
Instead, he sat down to try and capture in words the wonders of the magical landscape he found himself in thrall to: the migrations of seabirds, the rhythms of the tide, the windblown dunes, and the scatter of stars in the changing sky. Beston argued that, "The world today is sick to its thin blood for the lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot." Seventy-five years after they were first published, Beston's words are more true than ever.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780345256379
- ISBN-10
- 0345256379
Tags
AnimalsAnimals-BirdsOceanScience-NatureUnited States of America