Common ground, a naturalist's Cape Cod
Finch, Robert
ISBN 10: 0879233842 ISBN 13: 9780879233846
Published by D. R. Godine, 1981
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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.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Common ground, a naturalist's Cape Cod
Publisher: D. R. Godine
Publication Date: 1981
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Cannell, Amanda
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket