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Collection: Adult Nonfiction
Call Number: 920 Beston
Author: Payne, Daniel G.,
Title: Orion on the dunes
Remainder of title: a biography of Henry Beston
Summary, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index.

International Standard Book Number: 9781567925494 (alk. paper)
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: n-us---
Classification number: QH31.B48
Item number: P39 2016
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 508.092
Classification number: B
Dates associated with a name: 1958-
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: by Daniel G. Payne.
Place of publication: Boston, MA.
Name of publisher: David R Godine
Date of publication: 2016
: Boston :
: David R. Rodine, Publisher,
: 2016.
Extent: xxxiv, 391 pages :
Other physical details: illustrations ;
Dimensions: 24 cm
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: text
: rdamedia
: unmediated
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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-349) and index.
Formatted contents note: Foreground: a sense of place -- A New England boyhood of sea and shore (1888-1915) -- A volunteer Poilu (1915-1916) -- The violence and imbecilities of men (1916-1919) -- Weary of armageddon (1919-1923) -- A gallant vagabond (1923-1926) -- Orion rises on the dunes (1926-1928) -- Henry and Elizabeth (1929-1932) -- The revelation of the earth (1932-1935) -- The divine consciousness and the soul of man (1936-1940) -- A naturalist looks at war (1941-1945) -- The cosmic chill (1945-1952) -- The minotaur downstairs (1953-1958) -- On the side of life (1959-1968) -- Epilogue.
Source of acquisition: Donation 03/25/2017
Purchase price: $29.95
Personal name: Beston, Henry,
Dates associated with a name: 1888-1968.
Subject: Naturalists
Subject: Authors, American
Subject: Beston, Henry (1888-1968)-Biography.
Form subdivision: Biography.
Form subdivision: Biography.
Geographic subdivision: Massachusetts
Geographic subdivision: 20th century
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