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Essays by Cape Cod nature writer Robert Finch, inviting the reader to enjoy special places on the landscape of Cape Cod and the Islands.
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" It seems to me that the most frequent message in [these essays] is that the landscapes of Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha’s Vineyard . . . are neither natural nor artificial, but rich amalgams and resultants of human and natural history. They have been shaped at times by the forces of nature—weather, glaciation, plant succession, animal migration, etc.—and at others by the forces of human alteration—settlement, agriculture, industry, transportation, recreation, etc. Whatever the balance, or whichever forces currently dominate, each place is but the present moment, a single page in an evolving drama of historical flux in which we can read elements of the past and indicators of the future if we know how to look. Seen this way, experienced carefully and with attention, these places are capable of telling us something about what we were, who we are, and where we might be going."
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–from the author’s preface
For over thirty years, nature writer robert finch has tramped the wooded stretches and sandy shores of Cape Cod’s natural landscape. Over that time, the Cape has changed, as development has encroached ever further on beach, marsh, forest, and meadow. Large natural preserves, such as the Cape Cod National Seashore, are well known and heavily visited. The twenty-four essays in this book concentrate on the Cape and Islands’ "special places": smaller areas owned and managed by town conservation commissions or private conservation trusts. Exquisitely illustrated by Cape Cod artist Ellen Raquel LeBow, these essays invite both residents and visitors to explore and cherish local nature preserves from Bourne to Provincetown and on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.
Praise for Robert Finch
" These essays celebrate a landscape—Cape Cod—in a way that makes us see that our own backyards are as full of wonders as the Serengeti or Himalayas."
–chet raymo
" Robert Finch is everyman’s naturalist . . . a reflective observer whose verbal catalogs are reminiscent of Isak Dinesen in Africa. . . . He manages to invest the familiar with humor and tolerance."
–time
" Nature writing of a high order."
–new york times
" Robert Finch has few peers as a nature writer."
–richmond (virginia) times-dispatch
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- PublisherCommonwealth Editions
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1889833517
- ISBN 13 9781889833514
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages198
- IllustratorLeBow Ellen Raquel
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