Hoping to pull those same heartstrings here, Hays places himself in a Walden-like wilderness. Theirs was a heartfelt tale of adventure, family and the good old days. In his previous book, My Old Man and the Sea, Hays and his father built a sailing boat and navigated around Cape Horn. Soon, their Swiss Family Robinson existence becomes a vision only Daniel can see.įunny, tender, and fascinating, filled with the details of an unconventional life, this is the story of how the Hays family lived on Whale Island, and how, finally, they had to leave. For him, every morning is a wonder and every storm a blood-coursing thrill.īut while Daniel loves this simple life in the wilderness, his wife longs for the world they left behind, and his spirited stepson is feeling isolated. Taking Thoreau’s ideal of self-sufficiency to heart, Daniel generates electricity from solar power and a terrifying windmill, funnels rainwater for their showers, creates a toilet seat out of a whale vertebra, and strings their bed up on pulleys so that by day it can be lifted out of the way. This is the true story of fulfilling a fantasy: to live by your own rules and your own wits. Yearning to escape civilization and find a new adventure, he bought an island off the coast of Nova Scotia built a tiny house packed up his wife and stepson, two dogs, and three boatloads of supplies and moved there. But as it turned out, in the “real world,” he just felt lost.
He bought a house, took a job, and got married. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.A memoir of a year spent on a deserted island off Nova Scotia, from the New York Times–bestselling author of My Old Man and the Sea.Īfter Daniel Hays and his father built a twenty-five-foot boat and sailed it around Cape Horn, he thought he’d finally put his wanderlust to rest.
But while Daniel is building windmills and funneling rainwater for showers, his spirited son fee He generates electricity from solar power, creates a toilet seat from whale vertebra, and greets every storm with enthusiasm. In the foreground, we see Daniel who, not unlike one of Peter Pan's Lost Boys, joyfully lives this permanent boy's life. On Whale Island tells the story of how he packed up three boatloads of supplies, his wife, stepson, and two dogs and moved to a remote island off the coast of Nova Scotia, fulfilling a lifelong fantasy of escaping from the confines of civilization and living by his wits. Thinking his wanderlust satisfied, Hays married and settled down, only to find himself restless for adventure once again. As chronicled in the bestselling book My Old Man and the Sea, the thirst for living an unconventional life led Daniel Hays to sail around Cape Horn with his father in a boat they built themselves.
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