title: Wild and Beautiful Sable Island: Sand, Seals, Wild Horses, and Shipwrecks
author: Pat Keough
description: A 20-mile-long sandbar perpetually changing its face, Sable Island is a wind-blasted, fog-enshrouded place haunted by the ghosts of lost mariners. In time, a lifesaving station was established that, too, has since submerged beneath the shifting sand. So a stark, storied panorama awaits skilled photographers, like the Keoughs prove themselves to be in this glossy album of the isle's human relics and living wildlife. Teeming with seals, gulls, and wild horses stranded in the 1750s, Sable supports a stable system of fauna; the Keoughs concentrate on the horses. One might wonder how horses could survive on this lunarlike landscape, and the Keoughs don't avoid harsh scenes of carrion and carcasses. But generally, a spirit of fragile beauty pervades this work, which should attract all who know of this lonely Graveyard of the Atlantic. <i>Gilbert Taylor</i>
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  Mr. Pratt
  
  
  CHAPTER I. THE MASTERS
  
  CHAPTER II. THE MAN
  
  CHAPTER III. TOO MANY COOKS
  
  CHAPTER IV. THE PIG RACE
  
  CHAPTER V. THE CRUISE OF THE “DORA BASSETT”
  
  CHAPTER VI. OZONE ISLAND
  
  CHAPTER VII. SWEET SIMPLICITY
  
  CHAPTER VIII. MR. SCUDDER'S PRESENTS
  
  [CHAPTER IX. THE “FRESH-AIRERS”](Mr.%20Pratt_split_001.html#filepos187466)
  
  [CHAPTER X. THE VOYAGE OF THE ARK](Mr.%20Pratt_split_001.html#filepos211732)
  
  [CHAPTER XI. EUREKA](Mr.%20Pratt_split_001.html#filepos237152)
  
  [CHAPTER XII. MISS SPARROWS
  DIAGNOSIS](Mr.%20Pratt_split_001.html#filepos261621)
  
  [CHAPTER XIII. THE LAWN FÊTE](Mr.%20Pratt_split_001.html#filepos281833)
  
  [CHAPTER XIV. “THE BEST LAID PLANS”](Mr.%20Pratt_split_001.html#filepos303629)
  
  [CHAPTER XV. THE WHITE PLAGUE](Mr.%20Pratt_split_001.html#filepos327888)
  
  [CHAPTER XVI. THE NATURAL LIFE](Mr.%20Pratt_split_001.html#filepos357163)
  
  [CHAPTER XVII. ACROSS THE BAY](Mr.%20Pratt_split_001.html#filepos380080)
  
  [CHAPTER XVIII. 