For many years, literary buffs and nature devotees here on Cape Cod have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of a biography on Henry Beston, author of “The Outermost House.”

This fall, Godine Publishing released “Orion on the Dunes: A Biography of Henry Beston” by Daniel G. Payne, English professor at SUNY Oneonta and author of several books on nature writers.

Take it from someone who’s done more than a little research on this “Vagabond of the Dunes,” as Beston often referred to himself; Payne left no stone unturned in his quest to chronicle the life of one of the Outer Cape’s great writers.

Read the rest of the story in the Nov. 25 edition of The Cape Codder ...

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