Common Ground, a Naturalist's Cape Cod

Finch, Robert

ISBN 10: 0879233842 / ISBN 13: 9780879233846

Published by D. R. Godine, Boston, 1981

About this Item

Boston: D. R. Godine, 1981. Signed, limited edition in slipcase, #20 of 150 copies. Long gift inscription on flyleaf, otherwise fine. Slipcase has one lightly bumped corner and edge fade on one side. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Seller Inventory # 004010

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Common Ground, a Naturalist's Cape Cod
• Publisher: D. R. Godine, Boston
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879233842
• ISBN 13: 9780879233846
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Cannell, Amanda
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • General Natural History
  • Natural History - All

About this title

Synopsis

Robert Finch's selected essays, Common Ground, document one man's impassioned, informed, and inquisitive encounters with the natural world. Finch's locus is Cape Cod, that sandy, scrub-oaked, tough mutable, and vulnerable spit of land reaching out into the Atlantic Ocean like a gesturing arm. In these fine and expansive essays, Finch is witness to the powerful workings of northeaster and ocean, to the shift of dunes and the migration of herring to the flight of a woodcock and the death of a junco. Much more than cut-and-dried conservationism, Finch's naturalism is rooted in a keenly felt and reasoned philosophy of man's life with the land.

From the Back Cover

This is a book about beginnings, or landfalls, in a place by the sea that has been explored, settled, visited, studied, and written about more than almost any other stretch of the North American coastline. The focus of these essays is a personal response to the changing face of this curved peninsula, keeping in touch with the place where one lives.