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9780807085707 | 40 anv edition (Beacon Pr, March 1, 1999), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: 40th anniversary of a Cape Cod classicPerched on the banks of Stony Brook in the Cape Cod town of Brewster, Hay observes the stunning phenomenon of the annual run of the alewife, a herring that spawns in fresh water, enters the ocean as a fingerling, and returns to its natal pond.
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
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9781602527768 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, October 1, 2007), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: NonfictionLarge Print EditionWritten with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty.
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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
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9780805073683 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, July 1, 2003), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald Tribune)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.
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 | About this edition: NonfictionLarge Print EditionWritten with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty.
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9780979311505 | Unabridged edition (Silver Hollow Audio, June 1, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In 1926, Henry Beston spent two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod.
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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
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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: 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.
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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: One of the great classics of Cape Cod literature and a fine piece of nature writing--a lyrical, keenly observed portrait of a much loved land and its inhabitants.
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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 lyrical memoir of a summer with her artist husband in a remote Cape Cod dune shack.
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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.
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Product Description: A field companion to the natural sites of Cape Cod. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781584652700 | Univ Pr of New England, July 1, 2002, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: A field companion to the natural sites of Cape Cod.
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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.
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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.
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9780805067347 | Henry Holt & Co, June 1, 2001, cover price $17.99 | 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.
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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.
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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.
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9780874518023 | Univ Pr of New England, March 1, 1997, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A young writer confronts life, death, and literary ancestors amid the stark beauty of Cape Cod.
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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.
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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
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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
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9780393009835 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1980, cover price $14.95
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The plants, animals, and birds that may be seen on the sandy shores of Cape Cod are illustrated and described
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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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