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The Winter Beach
- by Charlton Ugborn, Jr. -
Publisher: William Morrow, New York, USA
Published: 1966
Binding: EXCELLENT HARDcover with G-VG Dustjacket 321 pages
Condition: ONCE read condition! A retired display copy and then stored - as illustrated!
Edition: FIRST EDITION: first printing 1966
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Remains just ONCE read - it is a lovely book from a private collection.The dustjacket has wear and small losses/grazes and marks to back panel however the book itself is superb. It is Tight - neat, no inscriptions or marks within. Appears as in my photos - this is the exact copy!! A nicely preserved copy - superb!
Minimal discernible shelf wear to the actual HARDcover itself, the interior is tight and spotlessly clean with 321 pages which are illustrated with forty black and white line drawings by Marcia and Edmund Norman.
Published in 1966 by William Morrow, New York, USA it is bound in HARDcover binding of quarter cloth papered boards and publisher's attractive pictorial dustcover.
Covers in excellent, bright, condition. (Stored with 2017!)
Measures 23½cms X 14½cms.
SYNOPSIS
Among the 14 books that Charlton Ogburn, Jr. wrote he wrote were "The Winter Beach," about beaches from Maine to Cape Hatteras, N.C., in winter.
"as a Bengali moneylender may in middle age feel the call to take up the begging-bowl or an innkeeper of Donegal to visit the Eternal City, I thought of devoting the next winter to the cold ocean beach. ... By the last of October [1964] I was on my way to Maine."
Contents include
North to Mount Desert;
More of Maine and South to Cape Ann;
Cape Cod;
Nantucket and South to Newport;
Long Island and the City;
Down the Coast to Assateague;
The Outer Banks.
About the Author
Charlton Ogburn, Jr. was an author and freelance professional writer. (1911-1998) After graduating from Harvard, Ogburn worked as a writer and book-reviewer, then joined the army in 1941. He was a member of Merrill's Marauders and rose to the rank of captain before his discharge. He later served with the State Department.
He was the author of over a dozen books and numerous magazine articles. The Marauders (1959), his first person account of the Burma Campaign in World War II, may be his best-known work; it was later made into the film Merrill's Marauders (1962). His account of his travels along the largely deserted north eastern shore in *The Winter Beach is considered a classic of nature-writing.
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Reviews
Just beautiful …. This is one of the most beautifully written books I've read in a long time. Ogburn spent a winter traveling from Maine to North Carolina, describing the wonders of the various winter beaches. He was a master of simile. Oh to be able to write like that....
“The Sweep of the horizons, the sense of timelessness” …… The winter beach ... how evocative of both solitude & a sense of encompassing wholeness! In this rich volume, Charlton Ogburn explores the Atlantic beaches from Maine to North Carolina during the winter season, writing with sensitivity, illuminating detail, and unexpected humor. First published in 1966, it's one of the earlier books about ecological systems -- but while it doesn't stint on scientific detail, it's far from academic & dry. The writing is warm, personal, certainly poetic. It invites the reader to really see what's always been right there, except that we're often so pre-occupied with the minutia of everyday, prosaic human life that we miss it. This is firmly in the tradition of Thoreau, Muir, and Burroughs ... and Ogburn doesn't suffer by the comparison, either. I'm so glad to see that this quiet, thoughtful book remains in print. No doubt many modern readers will find it too slow, too reflective, and thus just plain boring -- but that's all the more reason to read it, in order to discover just how wrong that judgment is, and just how much beauty & wonder such readers have never seen & appreciated. With the increasing environmental degradation of the world, a book such as this is all the more important -- but again, I don't want to make it sound like a dreary moral obligation or drudge work. It's quite simply a work that expands both knowledge & depth of feeling, one that ultimately rewards & enlarges the soul of the perceptive reader. Most highly recommended!
A neglected classic of coastal ecology ….. This book won a John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing when it was published in the 1960s, and it was well deserved. The author, also a famous Shakespeare scholar, sets out to explore the Atlantic coast from Maine to North Carolina in the winter, when the beaches are free of holiday crowds. He finds a surprising wealth of natural phenomena to write about, from huge flocks of waterbirds to the ever-shifting weather and geology of the ocean-land interface. He also finds all kinds of conservation issues which are all too familiar now, but which he was one of the first to show such an informed concern for. The book is not exactly a "page turner." Ogburn's expositions of geology and ecology require close attention on the part of the reader. These are enlivened by his sense of humor about himself and about the people he meets along the way - fishermen, park rangers, beachcombers. He writes about some surprising things, like the abandoned mansions of the vanished robber baron royalty at Newport Rhode Island. This is a significant piece of natural Americana that should go on the shelf with Walden and Sand County Almanac.
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