Great Beach
John Hay
1915
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Where the land runs out, something in us wakes. John Hay's meditation on Cape Cod's outer beach walks the line where Atlantic surf meets sand: shorebirds and storms, wrecks and tides, terns diving through fog, the deep time written in dunes. Writing in the 1960s tradition of Thoreau, Hay listens to the beach the way others read poetry, patiently and in all weathers. His prose is spare, luminous, and tidal in its rhythms. For coastal souls and contemplative listeners, this is the sea distilled. Take the long walk out.
15 chapters
- 1Chapter 1 - From a Distance19m
- 2Chapter 2 - An Unimagined Frontier25m
- 3Chapter 3 - The Resources of the Sea23m
- 4Chapter 4 - A Rhythmic Shore25m
- 5Chapter 5 - Dune Country32m
- 6Chapter 6 - A Change in History26m
- 7Chapter 7 - Barren Grounds17m
- 8Chapter 8 - A Landscape in Motion37m
- 9Chapter 9 - Who Owns the Beach?32m
- 10Chapter 10 - Deer Week14m
- 11Chapter 11 - Impermanence Takes it Stand17m
- 12Chapter 12 - The Depths of Sight21m
- 13Chapter 13 - The Flight of Birds23m
- 14Chapter 14 - The Marsh20m
- 15Chapter 15 - The Uses of Light23m
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