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. But while Daniel is building windmills and funneling rainwater for showers, his spirited son feels isolated and his wife longs for the life they left behind.įunny, tender, and 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. : On Whale Island: Notes from a Place I Never Meant to Leave (9781565116665) by Hays. 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 a permanent boy's life. He has worked as a field supervisor at a therapeutic wilderness program for troubled teenagers, holds a second-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, has a masters degree in environmental science, and has a captains license for boats rated up to twenty-five tons. 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. Daniel Hays is the coauthor of the bestseller My Old Man and the Sea.
Thinking his wanderlust satisfied, Hays married and settled down, only to find himself restless for adventure once again. OL5955990W Page_number_confidence 87.12 Pages 266 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220115165321 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 557 Scandate 20220111004742 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781565123458 Tts_version 4.As chronicled in the best-selling 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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