The Outer Lands Dorothy Sterling

Name: The Outer Lands By Dorothy Sterling
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The Outer Lands by Dorothy Sterling

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Did you know that horseshoe crabs have been around for 200 million years? That mussels spin long anchor lines and climb steep slopes with them? Do you know what a Beetlebung tree is?

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The Outer Lands Summary

The Outer Lands: A Natural History Guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island by Dorothy Sterling

This is all part of Dorothy Sterling's fascinating description of The Outer Lands, and the plants and animals that inhabit this peninsula and chain of islands along our New England coast.

The Outer Lands Reviews

This lovely volume will never leave my library shelves until I again enter the enchanted land it describes. -- Los Angeles Herald Examiner
This book belongs in the hands of anyone who has ever been even remotely curious about the myriad forms of teeming organisms that surround us. -- The Cape

About Dorothy Sterling

Dorothy Sterling (1913-2008) was a native New Yorker who lived for many years on Cape Cod in Wellfleet. She made many trips to Nantucket, Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, and Long Island. She was a painstaking and thorough researcher with a long list of natural history, biography, and fiction books to her credit. 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. Artist Winifred Lubell's wonderful drawings have illustrated many of Dorothy Sterling's natural history books. She also lives on Cape Cod.

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Sku

CIN0393064417A

ISBN 13

9780393064414

ISBN 10

0393064417

Title

The Outer Lands: A Natural History Guide to Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island, and Long Island by Dorothy Sterling

Author

Dorothy Sterling

Condition

Used - Well Read

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

WW Norton & Co

Year published

19920228

Number of pages

200

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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