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  • Henry Beston's classic The Outermost House, which I discovered shortly after graduating college, was a great beacon.

    A Conversation with Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig 2010

  • In the introduction to "The Outermost Dream," a 1989 collection of his essays, Maxwell noted that a good correspondence tells "what happened—what people said and did and wore and ate and hoped for and were afraid of, and in detail after often unimaginable detail."

    Staving Off Oblivion Abigail Deutsch 2011

  • In "The Outermost Dream," Maxwell wrote that letters could "hold oblivion at arms length."

    Staving Off Oblivion Abigail Deutsch 2011

  • The Temple—Middle, or Inner, or Outermost—however the several precincts are designated.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • The Temple—Middle, or Inner, or Outermost—however the several precincts are designated.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • The Temple—Middle, or Inner, or Outermost—however the several precincts are designated.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • I just ordered the book "The Outermost House" from which they pulled the phrase "islanded in a stream of stars".

    Canadian Preview Islanded In a Stream of Stars 2009

  • Quote from Night on the Great Beach, in Henry Beston's The Outermost House: "For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars— pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time."

    Archive 2009-03-01 radii 2009

  • Quote from Night on the Great Beach, in Henry Beston's The Outermost House: "For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars— pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time."

    VARIANTS: ISLANDED IN A STREAM OF STARS - PREVIEW radii 2009

  • In The Outermost House, Henry Beston wrote about big roguewaves "coming like a king" out of the sea.

    Howell Raines' South Pacific Marlin Fishing Adventure 2006

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