[PDF.13vr] Sable Island: The Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic

Sable Island: The Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic

[PDF.fl54] Sable Island: The Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic

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 | #2601505 in Books |  Walker n Company |  2004-10-01 |  2004-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.46 x.4 x6.22l, | File type: PDF | 276 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Extremely well researched and written|By John B|A fascinating blend of natural history and human misery to be found on the shores of Sable, this is one of the best books I have read in years. This should be required reading for youth in the Maritimes, as it provides a well written blend of geology, natural history, and the colonization and population of the east coast by Europe|From Publishers Weekly|This engaging natural history celebrates one of the world's most precarious landscapes, a sand spit 30 miles long and less than a mile wide, plunked down 100 miles from the Canadian coast. Continually gouged by wind and wave and stingily r

The story of a small but deadly sand dune in the middle of the North Atlantic

Sable Island―one hundred miles due east of Nova Scotia, in the midst of the worst weather in the North Atlantic―is a thirty mile-long sand dune, uninhabited except by a couple of government agents who maintain an outpost and by bands of wild horses that have populated the island for more than two hundred years. Yet this small place illuminates grand and global themes, both human an...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Sable Island: The Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic   |  Marq de Villiers, Sheila Hirtle. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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