Henry Beston Libros

Lavender, basil, hyssop, balm, sage, rue -- the thinking gardener's guide to herbs. Writer/naturalist Henry Beston, a founding father of the environmental movement, believed that a strong connection to nature is essential. "It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live," Beston says in his now-classic Herbs and the Earth. In this book, Beston shares one of those connections as seen through the oldest group of plants known to gardeners. "A garden of herbs," he writes, "is a garden of things loved for themselves in their wholeness and integrity. It is not a garden of flowers, but a garden of plants which are sometimes very lovely flowers and are always more than flowers." Whether you are already a committed herbalist or just dreaming of planting your first small garden, this book is a powerfully rich source of inspiration and information. As Roger B. Swain observes in his moving introduction, Herbs and the Earth has an intensity that evokes the herbs themselves, as if, pressed between the pages, their aroma has seeped into the pages. This Nonpareil edition includes a new afterword by environmentalist, educator, and author, Bill McKibben.

The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, "written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty" (New York Herald Tribune)A chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach, The Outermost House has long been recognized as a classic of American nature writing. Henry Beston had originally planned to spend just two weeks in a seaside cottage, but was so possessed by the mysterious beauty of his surroundings that he found he "could not go."Instead, he sat down to try and capture in words the wonders of the magical landscape he found himself in thrall to: the migrations of seabirds, the rhythms of the tide, the windblown dunes, and the scatter of stars in the changing sky. Beston argued that, "The world today is sick to its thin blood for the lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot." Seventy-five years after they were first published, Beston's words are more true than ever.

The Starlight Wonder Book holds significant historical value and has been preserved through modern republishing efforts by Alpha Editions. This edition features a complete reformatting and retyping, ensuring clarity and readability, rather than relying on scanned copies of the original. It aims to keep this classical work accessible for both present and future generations.

September 1926. Henry Beston bezieht ein kleines Holzhaus am Meer, das er sich im Jahr zuvor hat bauen lassen, um dort seinen Urlaub zu verbringen. Geplant waren zwei Wochen, doch er bleibt ein ganzes Jahr; ein Jahr, in dem er seine Umwelt auf sich wirken lässt, sie untersucht und auf diese Weise verstehen lernt. Beston hält sämtliche Beobachtungen in Notizbüchern fest, er beschreibt das Gesehene und Erlebte farbig und detailliert: den Zug der Seevögel, den Rhythmus von Ebbe und Flut, die Formen der Dünen und der Wellen, die Geräusche der Brandung und sogar den Wandel der Gerüche im Laufe der Jahreszeiten. Diesen sprachlich geschliffenen und alle Sinne ansprechenden Klassiker des Nature Writing, der vor genau 90 Jahren erschienen ist, gilt es nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung zu entdecken.