In the Company of Ligh

by John Hay

Book Overview

"One of the most daring of contemporary writers in the genre." -Norton Anthology of Nature Writing " Hay's] books about Cape Cod belong in the company of Thoreau, Donald Culross Peattie, Henry Beston,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807085383
• ISBN13: 9780807085387
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

The one piece of nature writing you must have.

John Hay's "In The Company of Light" is a book that you will read over and over, finding new insight into the wonders of the natural world each time. Hay is the Dean of Cape Cod nature writing and his verse is never more inspiring as in his latest book, released in the year of his 82nd birthday. Hay chronicles the timeless natural mysteries that the seasons bring outside the door of his summer home in Mid-coast Maine and to the former "worthless woodlot" on Cape Cod where he lives for the remainder of the year. Like Henry Beston's "The Outermost House" this book celebrates the cycles of the solar year and its stunning hallmarks. Whether he is writing about the company of swallows nesting in his barn in Maine or the strange glow emanating from the mushrooms in the woodpile on Cape Cod, Hay speaks for the reader's unarticulated awe for and love of the multitudes of life forms with whom we share the planet. This book is the one piece of nature writing, above all others, that you must have in your collection.