Death Of A Hornet And Other Cape Cod Essays
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Death Of A Hornet And Other Cape Cod Essays
By (Author) Robert Finch
Counterpoint
Counterpoint
23rd March 2001
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
History of the Americas
974.492
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 139mm, Height 215mm
Description
Spanning more than 20 years, these essays record changes not only in the natural environment of Cape Cod but in the writer's own life. Death of a Hornet is one man's elegant rendering of Cape Cod, a sandy, scrub-oaked, tough, and vulnerable spit of land reaching out into the Atlantic Ocean. These stories are "natural adventures" that Finch's previous readers have come to expect, as well as longer meditations on the future of the Cape's fragile environment, on living in one place for a long time, and on the limitations of human sympathy.
Author Bio
Widely regarded as one of America's leading nature writers, Robert Finch has lived on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, since 1971. He has published seven books of essays and is co-editor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing.
