Islanders

by Virginia Thorndike

Book Overview

Virginia Thorndike, Maine's own version of Studs Terkel, traveled to all the Maine coast islands that still maintain a year-round population and persuaded the islanders to talk openly about their lives. The result is a compulsively readable, unvarnished, and appealing portrait, much of it in the islanders? own words. The 15 islands not accessible by bridge that still have year-round populations are: Isle au Haut, Islesboro, the Cranberry Isles (near...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892726245
• ISBN13: 9780892726240
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Down East Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"