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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Martin-Bouteillier, Jill.     Subjects     Bouteillier family.     Radio operators -- Nova Scotia -- Sable Island -- Biography.     Sable Island (N.S.) -- History.     Sable Island (N.S.) -- Description and travel.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Martin-Bouteillier, Jill.       by title:      Return to Sable : in...       by call number:      971.699 M379r     Search the Web     Martin-Bouteillier, Jill.     Bouteillier family.     Radio operators -- Nova Scotia -- Sable Island -- Biography.     Sable Island (N.S.) -- History.     Sable Island (N.S.) -- Description and travel.       MARC Display

Return to Sable : inspired and shaped by true events / Jill Martin-Bouteillier. by Martin-Bouteillier, Jill. The author], 2015. Call #: 971.699 M379r Subjects Bouteillier family.   Radio operators -- Nova Scotia -- Sable Island -- Biography.   Sable Island (N.S.) -- History.   Sable Island (N.S.) -- Description and travel. ISBN:  9781496971180 (pbk.) Description:  xxxvi, 459 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. Summary:  The story of the author's family during the years they lived on the windswept dunes of Sable Island in the late 19th and early 20th century, based on the diaries and journals of one of Bouteillier's children, Beatrice. Both haunted and driven to discover a 100 year old secret, Jill Martin leads the reader on a journey to one of the loneliest places in North America: Sable Island. Sculpted by wind and waves, this thin slice of grass-covered dunes for centuries has lured hundreds of ships to founder on its treacherous sand bars. Only the foolhardy or naïve dared to underestimate the dangers of the Graveyard of the Atlantic. It is to this notorious outpost a hundred miles from mainland Nova Scotia that newly appointed Superintendent of Lifesaving, RJ Bouteillier, brings his young family in 1884. In this harsh, isolated and mysterious environment far from city life, young Beatrice, a woman who challenges the prescribed roles of her sex, crosses the threshold from childhood to adulthood. Entries in the visitor's book penned by long dead authors come to life in this engaging treasure hunt of passion and betrayal. Their stories unlock the portal to that distant past and chronicle the everyday lives of the residents of Sable Island. Coaxed ever deeper into the island's labyrinth, the reader discovers that Sable reveals her secrets on her own terms and in her own time. The author proudly writes under the pseudonym Jill Martin-Bouteillier in honour of her family. Genre:  Biographical fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Local History Collection 971.699 M379r Non-circulating Local History Room - Central Library, 4th Floor Add Copy to MyList

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