Sable Island: the Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic.(Book Review)

Publication: Natural History

Publication Date: 01-MAR-05

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Sable Island: The Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle Walker & Company, 2004; $24.00

Before I picked up this book, I'd never heard of Sable Island. But the seafaring communities of New England and Canada's Maritime Provinces know it all too well. One hundred and seventy-nine miles southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sable Island is a treeless, crescent-shaped sliver of sand stretching some twenty-five miles from west to east, near the edge of the continental shelf. It has never sustained a resident population of more than...

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