"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals,” The Outermost house is a classic work of naturalist literature that patiently chronicles a year of Henry Beston's life living in Fo'castle, a humble cottage sitting a top a dune on the easternmost point on Cape Cod. Meditating on the comings and goings of the surf and the wildlife, the almightiness of the sea, and the importance of stillness, Beston '...sought the great truth and found it in the nature of man'.