Bibliography: Beach Meditations

Anderson, Joan. A Year by the Sea. 1999. 921/An232a and Book Club/AN

Refusing to follow her husband on a job relocation, Anderson takes a year “off” to live by the sea and to reflect on her marriage and life.

Beston, Henry. Outermost House: a year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod. 1949. 917.449/BE

Beston describes the year he spent living in a small house on the dunes of the beach on Cape Cod combining vivid descriptions of the natural world with his own thoughts and musings.

Huntington, Cynthia. Salt House: a summer on the dunes of Cape Cod. 1999. 818/HU

From her small shack on the shore of Cape Cod, Huntington considers life and her new marriage in comparison to the dynamic natural environment around her.

Johnson, Anne M. Return to the Sea. 1998. 170/Jo

Two generations after it was first written, Johnson invites readers to reexamine Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Gift from the Sea and demonstrates its continuing relevance to our harried lives.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Gift from the Sea. 1955. 170/LI

Inspired by the sea and shells found on its shore, Morrow contemplates life, relationships, and the need to find and maintain balance.

Sarton, May. The House by the Sea: a journal. 1977. 921/Sa77sa

Sarton rediscovers her creativity when she moves to a new home where she lives a mostly solitary life in an “atmosphere of salt and amplitude.”

Thoreau, Henry David. Cape Cod. 1951. 814/TH

A posthumous collection of articles in which Thoreau uses his skills as a naturalist and observer of man and nature to evoke Cape Cod of one and a half centuries ago.

Compiled by Ellen B. Clark, May 2002.

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