By Monomoy Light: Nature and Healing in an Island Sanctuary

Cairn, North T.

ISBN 10: 1555534481 / ISBN 13: 9781555534486

Published by Northeastern Univ Pr, 2000

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Signed by Author Signed by Author Signed by Author Signed "To Oris, North Cairn" on first page. Very slight warp on ft. board's edge-otherwise like new. 264 pages.

Seller Inventory # 9892

Bibliographic Details

• Title: By Monomoy Light: Nature and Healing in an Island Sanctuary
• Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555534481
• ISBN 13: 9781555534486
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nature

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Synopsis

In this beautifully written book, North T. Cairn reflects on her three extended summer stays on Monomoy, an island wildlife sanctuary. Residing alone in an abandoned lighthouse-keeper's cottage, she lived simply in the wilderness, studying the diverse habitats of the refuge and its creatures.

Cairn recalls her sojourns on Monomoy, seamlessly blending memoir with natural and social history to trace the transformations that come from encounters with nature and its inhabitants. Her evocative observations of the barrier island paradise-sea and sand, light, flora, migrating birds, white-tailed deer, gray and harbor seals-echo larger, transcendent issues of life in a changing world. For Cairn, the outer world of nature also becomes a metaphor for the inner world of reflection, new discoveries, and healing, particularly of her own childhood trauma and long estrangement from family.

By Monomoy Light will reawaken the reader to the necessities of rest and peace; of space apart for meditative listening and quiet; of the imperative to preserve the character of the wilderness, wherever it may be found.

About the Author

North T. Cairn is a journalist who specializes in nature, the environment, human services, and science. She pens a prize-winning weekly nature column for the Cape Cod Times and holds an appointment in nonfiction writing at Mount Holyoke College. She lives in South Hadley, Massachusetts. John Hay is the author of several books, including A Beginner's Faith in Things Unseen, The Bird of Light, and In the Company of Light. He lives on Cape Cod.