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Books by Robert Finch
  | | The Outer Beach(1st Edition) A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore by Robert Finch Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35601-4, ISBN: 0-393-35601-9 "“Finch is today’s best, most perceptive Cape Cod writer in a line extending all the way back to Henry David Thoreau.”―Christian Science Monitor Weaving together Robert Finch’s collected writings from over fifty years and a thousand miles of walking along Cape Cod’s Atlantic coast, The Outer Beach is a poignant, candid chronicle of an iconic American landscape anyone with an appreciation for nature will cherish. 1 map" |
 | | A Cape Cod Notebook by Robert Finch, Jason Hart Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2011 by On Cape Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-9785766-9-1, ISBN: 0-9785766-9-1 "A collection of more than 50 exquisitely crafted radio essays, these short but poetic gems celebrate unique aspects of life on Cape Cod, especially the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Entranced by the island’s riches, Robert Finch takes the reader on a journey through the seasons in many well-known and beloved essays—including "Beach Ball," "Sea Dawn," "A Gratuity," "The Fish That Wouldn’t Die," "The Old Shell Game, ..." |
 | | The Primal Place(1st Edition) by Robert Finch Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Countryman Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88150-768-3, ISBN: 0-88150-768-7 "From acclaimed author and naturalist Robert Finch, a richly detailed observance of Cape Cod's seemingly vanished natural and human past, as it clings to its present landscape.This is a voyage of discovery, a personal odyssey into the nature of a single Cape Cod neighborhood. It is a rich portrait, beautifully drawn, of a landscape and a community whose essential character lies in their penetrating interface with the sea. But it is ..." |
 | | The Iambics of Newfoundland(1st Edition) Notes from an Unknown Shore by Robert Finch Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2008 by Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-421-6, ISBN: 1-58243-421-2 "For nearly a decade, Robert Finch traveled around the edge of North America” the stunning yet seriously inhospitable island of Newfoundland. Here, he chronicles the people, geography, and wildlife of this remote and lovely place. In beautifully written essays, sketches, and stories, Finch roams from verdant valleys to the rocky cliffs of Cape Spear, from Sandy Cove to Squid Tickle, from the steep streets of historic St. John’s to the ..." |
 | | Death of a Hornet(Updated) and Other Cape Cod Essays by Robert Finch, David Finch Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-138-3, ISBN: 1-58243-138-8 "Spanning more than 20 years, these essays record changes not only in the natural environment of Cape Cod but in the writer's own life. Death of a Hornet is one man's elegant rendering of Cape Cod, a sandy, scrub-oaked, tough, and vulnerable spit of land reaching out into the Atlantic Ocean. These stories are "natural adventures" that Finch's previous readers have come to expect, as well as longer meditations on the future of the Cape's ..." |
 | | The Outer Beach(2nd Edition) A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore by Robert Finch Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2017 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-08130-5, ISBN: 0-393-08130-3 "A poignant, candid chronicle of a beloved nature writer’s fifty-year relationship with an iconic American landscape.Those who have encountered Cape Cod―or merely dipped into an account of its rich history―know that it is a singular place. Robert Finch writes of its beaches: “No other place I know sears the heart with such a constant juxtaposition of pleasure and pain, of beauty being born and destroyed in the same moment.” And nowhere w ..." |
 | | The Iambics of Newfoundland(1st Edition) Notes from an Unknown Shore by Robert Finch, Date Maloy Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2007 by Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-154-3, ISBN: 1-58243-154-X "In these evocative sketches, stories and essays, nature writer Robert Finch explores the people, geography and wildlife of this remote but lovely corner of Canada. Beloved nature writer Robert Finch spent the greater part of a decade travelling around Newfoundland, the remote island "at the edge of America". Between the icy cliffs and the Atlantic Ocean, the lush valleys and barren drifts, he collected intimate stories of birds, moose a ..." |
 | | Special Places on Cape Cod and the Islands by Robert Finch, Ellen Lebow, Ellen Raquel Lebow Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2003 by Commonwealth Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-889833-51-4, ISBN: 1-889833-51-7 "Essays by Cape Cod nature writer Robert Finch, inviting the reader to enjoy special places on the landscape of Cape Cod and the Islands." |
 | | The Smithsonian Guides to Natural America Southern New England: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island by Robert Finch, Jonathan Wallen, Bob Finch Paperback, 284 Pages, Published 1996 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76475-5, ISBN: 0-679-76475-5 "A photographic tour of the natural wonders and seasonal recreational opportunities of southern New England encompasses more than two hundred sites of ecological and geographical significance in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Original. 35,000 first printing." |
 | | Norton Book of Nature Writing(1st Edition) by Robert Finch, John Elder, E. B. White, Norman Maclean, John Steinbeck, George Orwell, Rachel Carson, John Updike, John James Audubon, Charles Waterton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Bartram, Gilbert White, Walt Whitman Hardcover, 921 Pages, Published 1990 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-02799-0, ISBN: 0-393-02799-6 "This fine, well-annotated anthology offers selections from familiar writers such as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Annie Dillard, and Barry Lopez. It contains surprises as well, including George Orwell's little-known essay, "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad" and Herman Melville's musings on how the great white whale came to be so white in the first place, the fruit of the deep natural-historical research that underlies Moby-Dick. At mo ..." |
 | | A Place Apart(1st Edition) A Cape Cod Reader by Robert Finch Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2009 by Countryman Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88150-859-8, ISBN: 0-88150-859-4 "A Place Apart features essays and firsthand accounts of notable experiences throughout Cape Cod, including native Wampanoag creation myths; eyewitness accounts of the landing of the Pilgrims in 1620; candid stories of early life in the Old Colony; fascinating and often-harrowing accounts of the whaling and fishing industrie ..." |
 | | Nature Writing(2nd Edition) The Tradition in English by Robert Finch, John Elder Hardcover, 1,024 Pages, Published 2004 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04966-4, ISBN: 0-393-04966-3 "The definitive collection of prose masterpieces on nature, fully revised and expanded.Encounters with nature have produced some of the great literature of our age. Darwin's ruminations on the Galapagos Islands, Thoreau's communion with Walden Pond, and Rachel Carson's evocation of the rocky coast of Maine are monuments in the history of writing and thought. No less significant are the searching essays of such contemporary writers as We ..." |
 | | Norton Book of Nature Writing by Robert Finch, John Elder, Robrt Fnch, Lilace Mellin Guignard, Benjamin Read Foster Paperback, 1,152 Pages, Published 2002 by Wwnortoncoinc,2002 Import ISBN-13: 978-0-393-97816-2, ISBN: 0-393-97816-8 "The definitive collection of prose masterpieces on nature, fully revised and expanded. At once enthralling and enlightening, these essays present nature in all the incarnations—prickly, chaotic, generous, cruel, mysterious, and heartbreaking—that have inspired men and women to celebrate it in words. Containing over fifty new selections by more than forty new writers, this second edition reflects the extraordinary popularity the genre ha ..." |
 | | Death of a Hornet(1st Edition) And Other Cape Cod Essays by Robert Finch, David Finch Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2000 by Harpercollins Canada / Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-58243-049-2, ISBN: 1-58243-049-7 "Cape Cod, Massachusetts, like every other place, is but a small corner of the planet. Yet it contains multitudes, as the nature writer and editor Robert Finch demonstrates in this lively set of essays. In the title piece, which opens the book, he muses on a fellow occupant of his study, a spider that, one day, does in a yellow hornet that has incautiously wandered into her web. There is no cruelty in the spider's act, Finch notes, only ..." |
 | | Common Ground(Reprint) A Naturalist's Cape Cod by Robert Finch, Amanda Cannell Paperback, 162 Pages, Published 1994 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31179-2, ISBN: 0-393-31179-1 ""In these compassionate, quietly evocative essays, Mr. Finch makes an eloquent case for dealing with nature not just as an extension of ourselves but as a world apart." -- New York Times Book Review When Common Ground was first published, Annie Dillard praised Robert Finch's essays for "their strength, subtlety, and above all their geniality." New readers will have a chance to discover that Finch's Cape Cod is indeed a wonderful place. ..." |
 | | For the Back of a Likeness SIGNED by Robert Finch Paperback, 76 Pages, Published 1986 by Porcupines Quill ISBN-13: 978-0-88984-089-8, ISBN: 0-88984-089-X |
 | | Common Ground A Naturalist's Cape Cod. by Robert Finch Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1981 by Godine, David R+Publ Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-87923-427-0, ISBN: 0-87923-427-X "These bore such hand-lettered legends as 'sally's allee' and 'tinker's lane,' named after children of a generation past whose families still summer here, ..." |
 | | A Land(Reprint) (The Concord Library) by Jacquetta Hopkins Hawkes, Robert Finch Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 1991 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-8511-0, ISBN: 0-8070-8511-1 "1951 by Jacquetta Hawkes Introduction (C) 1991 by Beacon Press All rights reserved First digital-print edition 2001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Hawkes, Jacquetta Hopkins, 1910–1996 A land / Jacquetta Hawkes; with ..." |
 | | A Sand County Almanac And Sketches Here And There - American Museum Of Natural History Special Members' Edition by Aldo Leopold, Robert Finch, Charles W. Schwartz Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 1989 by Oxford University Press Edição Especial ISBN-13: 978-0-19-505928-1, ISBN: 0-19-505928-X "Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his ..." |
 | | A Sand County Almanac And Sketches Here and There, Special Commemorative Edition by Aldo Leopold, Robert Finch, Charles W. Schwartz Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1987 by Oxford University Press Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-19-505305-0, ISBN: 0-19-505305-2 "Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his ..." |
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