Death of a Hornet and Other Cape Cod Essays

Essays on the natural history of the Cape Cod region document changes in the environment and in the author''s life.. Spanning more than 20 years these essays record changes not only in the natural environment of Cape Cod but in the writer''s own life. Death of a Hornet is one man''s elegant rendering of Cape Cod a sandy scrub-oaked tough and vulnerable spit of land reaching out into the Atlantic Ocean. These stories are natural adventures that Finch''s previous readers have come to expect as well as longer meditations on the future of the Cape''s fragile environment on living in one place for a long time and on the limitations of human sympathy.