Best Cape Cod Massachusetts Travel Books

And he ponders everyday human interactions conducted in its environment with equal curiosity, wit, and insight: taking a weeks-old puppy for his first beach walk; engaging in a nocturnal dance with one of the Cape’s fabled lighthouses; stumbling, unexpectedly, upon nude sunbathers; or even encountering out-of-towners hoping an Uber will fetch them from the other side of a remote dune field. But lurking behind every experience and observation―both pivotal and quotidian―is the essential question that the beach beckons every one of its pilgrims to confront: How do we accept our brief existence here, caught between overwhelming beauty and merciless indifference? “The author chose John Keats’ remark, ‘Description is always bad,’ as an epigraph for the book, but that comment surely does not apply to the precision and sheer loveliness of Finch’s prose….Vivid and graceful reflections on water and wind, shifting sands, and the inevitability of change.”. - starred review, Kirkus Reviews. “Every step of this fifty-year journey is a lesson, a poem, a hypothesis, a paean, a keen stroke in a vivid seascape, a treatise, a fresh verse in an ongoing elegy. Open this book and you can venture out with him in all weathers, all seasons―beachcombing, storm-chasing, birdwatching―all the while musing on the primordial dance between land and sea, and on the resilient creatures that live along the edge.”. - Scott Russell Sanders, author of Dancing in Dreamtime.

A working organic farm fulfills a family’s dream of simpler values; a luxurious renovation saves the best of an antique shingle cottage while transforming it for contemporary family life and a raised structure clad in naturally weathered boards combines the legacy of midcentury regional modern architecture with Cape Cod’s maritime tradition. The firm is committed to the principle “Build once, well,” looking to the historic architecture of the region and the inherited experience of its carpenters and craftspeople as inspiration for contemporary design. “After designing homes on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard for thirty years, Hutker Architects is known for building livable places that respect the region’s heritage. Hutker Architects, which has offices in Falmouth and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, has 30 years’ experience designing houses among the rocky bluffs and sandy dunes of the New England coastline, and the firm’s book explores what makes the area unique. With five essays and more than 200 photographs (the cover shot is by Design New England contributing photographer Eric Roth) of houses that the firm, led by principal Mark A. Hutker, has designed, the book explores the values guiding every choice, from tapping local traditions to using native materials to infusing the inimitable histories of each community.”. — Design New England. “Hutker Architects’ second book features photography of 13 homes on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard as well as essays about each place.

Over 200 stunning color photos provide a unique perspective on life in and around Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Christopher Seufert is a photographer based in Cape Cod.

This is the true story of Stan Zuray's incredible journey; the reformation of a man's heart and mind in the forbidding darkness of Alaska's endless winter.

This is the true story of Stan Zuray's incredible journey; the reformation of a man's heart and mind in the forbidding darkness of Alaska's endless winter.

Metro Worcester, Central Massachusetts Street Atlas.