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The Run

Chronicles the annual migration of the alewives, beginning in the spring when these members of the herring family leave the ocean and come inland to spawn and following their journey through streams to freshwater ponds on Cape Cod (view table of contents)

By John Hay

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Hardcover:

9780807085707 | 40 anv edition (Beacon Pr, March 1, 1999), cover price $23.00

9780393012699 | 3 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1979), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the annual migration of the alewives, beginning in the spring when these members of the herring family leave the ocean and come inland to spawn and following their journey through streams to freshwater ponds on Cape Cod

The Outermost House, A Year of LIfe on the Great Beach of Cape Cod: Library Edition

By Brett Barry (narrator) and Henry Beston

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Miscellaneous:

9781602527768 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, October 1, 2007), cover price $34.99

The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

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

By Henry Beston

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Hardcover:

9780783884493 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1998), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author records his observations of nature during the twelve months he spent in a Cape Cod beach house

Paperback:

9780805073683 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, July 1, 2003), cover price $16.99

9780805019667 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, June 1, 1992), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The author records his observations of nature during the one year he spent in a Cape Cod beach house

9780345334206 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, October 1, 1985), cover price $3.95 | also contains Makerspaces

CD/Spoken Word:

9780979311505 | Unabridged edition (Silver Hollow Audio, June 1, 2007), cover price $29.95

Primal Place

Product Description: From acclaimed author and naturalist Robert Finch, a richly detailed observance of Cape Cod's seemingly vanished natural and human past, as it clings to its present landscape. This is a voyage of discovery, a personal odyssey into the nature of a single Cape Cod neighborhood...read more

By Robert Finch

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Hardcover:

9780393016239, titled "The Primal Place" | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1983), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A detailed portrait of, and a subtle analysis on, the nature of a particular Cape Cod neighborhood sketches the locale's human and natural communities and delineates both the visible and invisible ties between them

Paperback:

9780881507683, titled "The Primal Place" | Countryman Pr, May 1, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: From acclaimed author and naturalist Robert Finch, a richly detailed observance of Cape Cod's seemingly vanished natural and human past, as it clings to its present landscape.

9780893407490 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, June 1, 1984), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A detailed portrait of, and a subtle analysis on, the nature of a particular Cape Cod neighborhood sketches the locale's human and natural communities and delineates both the visible and invisible ties between them

House on Nauset Marsh

A physician reflects on the changing moods of land and sea, as well as the flora and fauna of the salt marsh and woods, as seen from his farmhouse located in one of Cape Cod's marshes, in a new edition of a memoir first published in 1947. Reprint.

By Wyman Richardson

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Paperback:

9780881506457, titled "The House On Nauset Marsh" | 50 anv edition (Countryman Pr, July 11, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A physician reflects on the changing moods of land and sea, as well as the flora and fauna of the salt marsh and woods, as seen from his farmhouse located in one of Cape Cod's marshes, in a new edition of a memoir first published in 1947.

9780881504026, titled "The House on Nauset Marsh" | Reprint edition (Countryman Pr, November 1, 1997), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A physician reflects on the changing moods of land and sea as seen from his farmhouse located in one of Cape Cod's marshes

9780856990465 | Devin-Adair Pub, April 1, 1972, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Dr.

The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod

Product Description: The Salt House is a beautifully observed and written memoir of a long summer's stay on the back shore of Cape Cod. Each chapter is like a prose poem, shedding increasing light on the challenge of finding "home" without the illusion of permanence, a quest based not on ownership but on affinity and familiarity with an area and its people...read more

By Cynthia Huntington

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Hardcover:

9780783888125 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, December 1, 1999), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: The author shares her experiences living on the shore of Cape Cod, and the process of becoming one of the natives.

9780874519341 | Univ Pr of New England, August 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A woman writer's memoir of a summer with her artist husband in a remote Cape Cod dune shack.

Paperback:

9781584652946 | Dartmouth College, February 1, 2003, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The Salt House is a beautifully observed and written memoir of a long summer's stay on the back shore of Cape Cod.

The Nature of Cape Cod

Product Description: A well-known Cape naturalist, geologist, and public educator has written the first comprehensive natural history of the area, describing life and natural processes in its varied environments, from ocean beach to cranberry bog to deep woods...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sandra Hogan McDermott (illustrator) and Beth Schwarzman

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Hardcover:

9781584652700 | Univ Pr of New England, July 1, 2002, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: A well-known Cape naturalist, geologist, and public educator has written the first comprehensive natural history of the area, describing life and natural processes in its varied environments, from ocean beach to cranberry bog to deep woods.

Paperback:

9781584651079 | Univ Pr of New England, May 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A well-known Cape naturalist, geologist, and public educator has written the first comprehensive natural history of the area, describing life and natural processes in its varied environments, from ocean beach to cranberry bog to deep woods.

The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket

Focusing the region of Cape Code, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket, the author of The Adirondacks serves up a compelling natural and human history of this region, covering Native American and European inhabitation, shipwrecks, hurricanes, sperm whales, religion, revolution, and other key facets of this Massachusetts area. Reprint. 17,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Paul Schneider

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Hardcover:

9780805059281 | Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 2000, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Provides natural and human history of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket, covering Native American and European inhabitation, shipwrecks, hurricanes, sperm whales, religion, and revolution.

Paperback:

9780805067347 | Henry Holt & Co, June 1, 2001, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Focusing the region of Cape Code, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket, the author of The Adirondacks serves up a compelling natural and human history of this region, covering Native American and European inhabitation, shipwrecks, hurricanes, sperm whales, religion, revolution, and other key facets of this Massachusetts area.

Death of a Hornet: And Other Cape Cod Essays

Essays on the natural history of the Cape Cod region of New England document changes in the environment, and in the author's life. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Robert Finch

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Hardcover:

9781582430492 | Counterpoint, April 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A full-time resident of Cape Cod offers essays on the future of the Cape's fragile environment, the relationship between nature and the human spirit, and his participation in a whale rescue.

Paperback:

9781582431383 | Counterpoint, March 23, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Essays on the natural history of the Cape Cod region of New England document changes in the environment, and in the author's life.

A Wild, Rank Place: One Year on Cape Cod

Product Description: Cape Cod, that sandy, wind-swept enchantress, has captivated many writers, among them Henry David Thoreau, whose descriptions of that "wild, rank place" have fired the imaginations of not one but many generations. Among Thoreau's literary progeny is David Gessner, but this book goes far beyond the naturalist's focus on the transcendent beauty of the landscape...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Gessner

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Hardcover:

9780874518023 | Univ Pr of New England, March 1, 1997, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Cape Cod, that sandy, wind-swept enchantress, has captivated many writers, among them Henry David Thoreau, whose descriptions of that "wild, rank place" have fired the imaginations of not one but many generations.

Paperback:

9780874518030 | Univ Pr of New England, April 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Cape Cod, that sandy, wind-swept enchantress, has captivated many writers, among them Henry David Thoreau, whose descriptions of that "wild, rank place" have fired the imaginations of not one but many generations.

Outlands: Journeys to the Outer Edges of Cape Cod

Eighteen essays describe the author's experiences exploring the outer half of Cape Cod, and share his observations on nature, ecology, and the relationship between people and their environment

By Robert Finch

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Hardcover:

9780879236199 | David R Godine Pub, June 1, 1986, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Eighteen essays describe the author's experiences exploring the outer half of Cape Cod, and share his observations on nature, ecology, and the relationship between people and their environment

Paperback:

9780879237424 | Reprint edition (David R Godine Pub, September 1, 1988), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Eighteen essays describe the author's experiences exploring the outer half of Cape Cod, and share his observations on nature, ecology, and the relationship between people and their environment

Great Beach

Product Description: “The Cape will probably never have a better celebrant than Hay, and it will probably never again serve as such a perfect metaphor for our present exquisite tension between the guaranteed traditional warmths of the hearth and the cold outer reaches of science...read more

By John Hay

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Paperback:

9780393009835 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1980, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: “The Cape will probably never have a better celebrant than Hay, and it will probably never again serve as such a perfect metaphor for our present exquisite tension between the guaranteed traditional warmths of the hearth and the cold outer reaches of science.

The Sandy Shore

The plants, animals, and birds that may be seen on the sandy shores of Cape Cod are illustrated and described

By John Hay

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Hardcover:

9780999153024 | Chatham Pr, June 1, 1968, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A presentation of life along the shores of Cape Cod, covering the different zones of plant and animal life such as the tidal flats or the unprotected shore, and its birds, bivalves, pebbles, and fish.

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