The Outer Beach
A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore
21 September 2018
Description
A poignant, candid chronicle of a beloved nature writer’s fifty-year relationship with an iconic American landscape.
Those who have encountered Cape Cod know that it is a singular place. In The Outer Beach, Robert Finch weaves together his collected writings from more than fifty years and more than a thousand miles of walking along Cape Cod’s Atlantic coast to create a poignant, candid chronicle of an iconic landscape.
Reviews
"Lovely and fortifying... Geologists estimate that Cape Cod will disappear in around 6,000 years... Until it goes, may there continue to be writers as good as Mr. Finch to commemorate it." — Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal
"[Finch] is a keen and passionate observer... [He] artfully conveys what is, at heart, so stirring about the beach: how its beauty and magisterial power cause us to ponder the larger things in life." — The New York Times Book Review
Also By: Robert Finch 
The House on Nauset Marsh: A Cape Cod Memoir
Paperback, 2005
A classic of Cape Cod literature and a great piece of nature writing, The House on Nauset Marsh is a lyrical, poignant and often humorous work of a much-loved land and the people who called it home...
Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod
Paperback, 1994
"In these compassionate, quietly evocative essays, Mr. Finch makes an eloquent case for dealing with nature not just as an extension of ourselves but as a world apart." -- New York Times Book...
The Cape Itself
Hardback, 1992
Natural Robert Finch introduces the reader to the landscape and environment of Cape Cod.
The Outer Lands: A Natural History Guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island
Paperback, 1992
Did you know that horseshoe crabs have been around for 200 million years? That mussels "spin" long anchor lines and climb steep slopes with them? Do you know what a "Beetlebung" tree is?
