The House on Nauset Marsh: A Cape Cod Memoir

The House on Nauset Marsh: A Cape Cod Memoir

Wyman Richardson, Robert Finch (Introduction by)
$15.95
Publication Date: July 11th, 2005
Publisher:
Countryman Press
ISBN:
9780881506457
Pages:
232
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Description

A classic of Cape Cod literature and a great piece of nature writing, The House on Nauset Marsh is a lyrical, poignant and often humorous work of a much-loved land and the people who called it home in a simpler time.

Dr. Wyman Richardson lived the life of a busy, and distinguished, physician, practicing in Boston and teaching at the Harvard Medical School, but here is recorded his other lifethe one closest to his heart. Cape Cod, and, more specifically, his humble farmhouse on Nauset Marsh, was his refuge. First published in 1947, The House on Nauset Marsh presaged later authors who discussed such subjects as the intelligence, language, and emotions of animals. His observances of fog, time, bird language, the wind and weather touch upon the philosophical. Little could escape Wyman Richardson's gaze in his activities and at restreflecting on the shifting moods of land and sea, the denizens of salt marshes and woods, and the personalities and stories of the Cape Codders of a gentler time.

About the Author

Wyman Richardson, physician and writer, was also an amateur naturalist and ornithologist. He spent many years of his life on Cape Cod, on and off from his boyhood until his death in 1953.

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.