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In September of 1926,Henry Beston Sheahan, 38 years old and single, went for a two-week vacation to a small frame cottage he'd had built on the sand-dunes two miles south of the Coast Guard station at Nauset, on Cape Cod.

He had not intended to stay, but, as he recounted later in The Outermost House, "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." Thus began a solitary sojourn on the beach, a thoughtful man's "year in outer nature;" the book that would bring that place, that year to life for legions of devoted readers; and the mature career of writer-naturalist Henry Beston.

Born in 1888 in the Boston suburb of Quincy, Mass., Beston was the son of an Irish-American physician and his Franco-American wife.

He was educated at Harvard -