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Sable Island : the strange origins and curious history of a dune adrift in the Atlantic / Marq de Villiers & Sheila Hirtle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Villiers, Marq.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history--Nova Scotia--Sable Island.
- Natural history.
- Sable Island (N.S.)--History.
- Sable Island (N.S.).
- Nova Scotia--Sable Island.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Walker & Co., 2004.
- Summary:
- A dune adrift in the Atlantic is the subject of this fascinating history. Sable Island--100 miles due east of Nova Scotia, in the midst of the worst weather in the North Atlantic--is a 30-mile-long sand dune that illuminates grand and global themes, both human and natural.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Its Mysterious Presence 1
- Chapter 1 Its Disputed Discovery 11
- Chapter 2 Its Glacial Origins 23
- Chapter 3 Its Feckless Colonizers 45
- Chapter 4 Its Serial Shipwrecks 52
- Chapter 5 Its Tides and Complex Currents 58
- Chapter 6 Its Gales and Killer Waves 74
- Chapter 7 Its Human Drama 91
- Chapter 8 Its Boston Connection 97
- Chapter 9 Its Acadian Roots 108
- Chapter 10 Its Curious Ecosystem 123
- Chapter 11 Its Lurid Rumors 134
- Chapter 12 Its Eccentrie Governors 149
- Chapter 13 Its Savage Storms 179
- Chapter 14 Its Will Creatures 200
- Chapter 15 Its Confusing Politics 227
- Chapter 16 Its Very Exiztence at Risk 245
- Epilogue: Its Endless Gales 250.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802714323
- OCLC:
- 55487286
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