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On Whale Island: Notes from a Place I Never Meant to Leave (2002 1st Ed HC/DJ)
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- Artikelzustand
- Sehr gut
- Hinweise des Verkäufers
- “very good 1st ed hc w dj unmarked throughout”
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Brand
- Unbranded
- Era
- 2000s
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- MPN
- Does not apply
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9781565123458
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-10
156512345X
ISBN-13
9781565123458
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8038407462
Product Key Features
Book Title
On Whale Island : Notes from a Place I Never Meant to Leave
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, General, Customs & Traditions
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-018337
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"[Hays's] island . . . is an enigma--its heart an impenetrable spruce thicket--and readers must accept Hays's love of the place rather than share it . . . Those blood-red skies, all that weather, shrieking winds, stormy seas, and bell-clear days . . . A taste of living theater, with all its entanglements, fragments, and doldrums." -- Kirkus "Here is the soul of an adventurer laid bare . . . Hays is a superb comic writer, an irrepressible jokester who turns this epic camping trip into a cracked, sitcom Walden . . . At the core of this story is a man's elemental struggle to . . . know the reason for his life, which raises On Whale Island to the level of profound rumination." -- SFGATE "Engrossing . . . [the audiobook narrator Bruce Altman] keeps the story moving with impeccable diction and great timing, and he knows just when to nail a punch line. This is a feel-good book, and Altman keeps the mood upbeat." -- AudioFile Magazine
Dewey Decimal
971.6
Edition Description
Teacher's edition
Synopsis
"Here is the soul of an adventurer laid bare . . . Hays is a superb comic writer, an irrepressible jokester who turns this epic camping trip into a cracked, sitcom Walden . . . Profound." -- SFGATE After Daniel Hays and his father built a twenty-five-foot boat and sailed it around Cape Horn, he thought he'd finally put his wanderlust to rest. He went back to school, bought a house, took a job, got married. But as it turned out, in the real world Daniel Hays felt lost. So he took his love for the sea and his need to escape civilization and pushed it further: he bought an island off the coast of Nova Scotia; built a tiny house; packed up his wife and stepson, two dogs, and three boatloads of supplies; and moved there. This is the story of fulfilling a fantasy: to live by your own rules and your own wits. And Daniel Hays, as readers of My Old Man and the Sea will remember, is well equipped to do both. He generates electricity from solar power and a terrifying windmill, funnels rainwater for their showers, creates a toilet seat out of a whale vertebra, strings their bed up on pulleys so that by day it can be lifted out of the way. For him, every morning is a wonder and every storm a blood-coursing thrill. But while Daniel loves this permanent boy's life, his wife longs for the life they left behind, and his spirited stepson is feeling isolated. Soon, their Swiss Family Robinson existence becomes a vision only Daniel can see. Funny, tender, and fascinating, filled with the details of an unconventional life, this is the story of how the Hays family lived on Whale Island, and how, finally, they had to leave., After Daniel Hays and his father built a twenty-five-foot boat and sailed it around Cape Horn, he thought he'd finally put his wanderlust to rest. He went back to school, bought a house, took a job, got married. But as it turned out, in the real world Daniel Hays felt lost. So he took his love for the sea and his need to escape civilization and pushed it further: he bought an island off the coast of Nova Scotia; built a tiny house; packed up his wife and stepson, two dogs, and three boatloads of supplies; and moved there. This is the story of fulfilling a fantasy: to live by your own rules and your own wits. And Daniel Hays, as readers of My Old Man and the Sea will remember, is well equipped to do both. He generates electricity from solar power and a terrifying windmill, funnels rainwater for their showers, creates a toilet seat out of a whale vertebra, strings their bed up on pulleys so that by day it can be lifted out of the way. For him, every morning is a wonder and every storm a blood-coursing thrill. But while Daniel loves this permanent boy's life, his wife longs for the life they left behind, and his spirited stepson is feeling isolated. Soon, their Swiss Family Robinson existence becomes a vision only Daniel can see. Funny, tender, and fascinating, filled with the details of an unconventional life, this is the story of how the Hays family lived on Whale Island, and how, finally, they had to leave., Daniel Hays always wanted to live at sea, away from civilization, and on the edge. After he and his father built a twenty-five-foot boat and sailed it around Cape Horn, he thought he had put his wanderlust to rest. He went back to school, bought a house, got married.
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F1039
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