| Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod Contributor(s): Finch, Robert (Author), Cannell, Amanda (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0393311791 ISBN-13: 9780393311792 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1994 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats - Oceans & Seas - Science | Life Sciences - Biology |
| Dewey: 574.974 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.46" W x 8.23" (0.37 lbs) 158 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When Common Ground was first published, Annie Dillard praised Robert Finch's essays for their strength, subtlety, and above all their geniality. New readers will have a chance to discover that Finch's Cape Cod is indeed a wonderful place. The birds, fish, and animals that share the cape's fragile ecology on any given summer day with the human residents are described with the fresh eye of a first-rate nature writer. |
Contributor Bio(s): Finch, Robert: - Robert Finch has lived on Cape Cod for forty years, currently in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. He is the author of seven collections of essays, most recently of his radio scripts for his weekly commentary, "A Cape Cod Notebook," on the Cape and Islands NPR Station, WCAI. |