A chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach, The Outermost House has long been recognized as a classic of American nature writing. Henry Beston had originally planned to spend just two weeks in his seaside home, but was so possessed by the mysterious beauty of his surroundings that he found he "could not go." He captures the migrations of seabirds, the rhythms of the tide, the windblown dunes, and the scatter of stars in the changing summer sky, arguing that modern life lacks elemental things and that Beston's words remain relevant decades after first publication.