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Sable Island -Life on Remote Atlantic Outpost, 1951.
Description : 08 Apr, 2023
“Our Sable Island Home”
By: Sharon O'Hara & Mary O'Hara
Our Sable Island Home is a personal story that does not shy away from the perils of life in an isolated locale, interwoven with maritime history that centres around the iconic island. The story will take you on a journey more than sixty years back into the past, to a time when Sable Island was referred to as "the Graveyard of the Atlantic."
Sable Island was still a lifesaving establishment in 1951 when Ernest O'Hara took his wife and four children, including a three-month-old baby, on the perilous passage to Sable Island to make a home upon its sands. The story opens with the family setting sail on HMCS Edward Cornwallis for Sable Island where Ernest had accepted the post as Officer in Charge of the Sable Island Wireless Station.
As confident and well prepared as the couple was to live on an isolated sandbar in the Atlantic, they discovered they couldn't prepare themselves for every misfortune. The book tells stories that bring to life the hardships, worries, desperation, fears and uncertainties e with such isolation.
The two older girls, filled with unbridled joy and wonder, will take you along to run free on the dunes of Sable, through the marram grass, and on the beaches - always at the mercy of sand, sea, Atlantic gales and their own bad decisions. Adventures and escapades abound, including encounters with the wild ponies of Sable and the occasional discovery of abandoned ships unearthed by the wind on the long strands of beach.
The history of the island is woven throughout the book, providing a context for the story and enabling a deeper understanding of Sable Island.
The book is a softcover, and was published in Halifax in 2014. It is 174 pages long, with an index, footnotes, bibliography, and tons of illustrations and photographs. Book is used, but in very good condition – no writing, no stains or soiling, clean cover & tight spine.
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