{"product_id":"orion-on-the-dunes-a-biography-of-henry-beston-9781567925494","title":"Orion on the Dunes: A Biography of Henry Beston","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first biography of the writer\/naturalist, and one of the leading founders of the modern environmental movement, Henry Beston.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In September of 1926, Henry Beston spent a two-week vacation in a Cape Cod shack he'd built high on an isolated stretch of dunes overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. As he later wrote, \"the fortnight ending, I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me that I could not go.\" The resulting book, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Outermost House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, is universally considered a classic of American nature writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his later books, Beston explored the ways that the modern industrial era was endangering the vital connection between humankind and the natural world, and he is now recognized as a key figure in the twentieth century's conservation movement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrion on the Dunes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, the first biography of Beston, scholar Daniel Payne--granted unrestricted access to the writer's archives and drawing on interviews with friends and family--has crafted a scrupulously researched narrative; one presenting a masterful portrait that traces the intellectual growth and tumultuous life of a vital American writer whose work and thought have exerted a tremendous pull on poets, naturalists, and novelists alike. This is the story of a life, at once hidden and transparent, that is here finally revealed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e David R. Godine Publisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781567925494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2016 pg. 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Daniel G. Payne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52435533004981,"sku":"9781567925494","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ec188723-c24f-489b-8ee1-1d51ee7dd6ae.jpg?v=1776227059","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/orion-on-the-dunes-a-biography-of-henry-beston-9781567925494","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}