<p><i>McNutt’s Island Journal<\/i> is Elizabeth Walden Hyde’s candid record of her life on this small island off Shelburne, Nova Scotia, from September 1984 to May 1985. During what her daughter called her mother’s \u00ab\u00a0hazardous, solitary adventure\u00a0\u00bb in a farmhouse with no electricity or plumbing, Elizabeth grapples daily with the long lists of tasks to be completed: fencing for the garden, log-splitting for the wood stove, painting boats, digging for water, repairing her sewing machine, and fixing the fridge among them, not to mention checking on her sheep.<\/p>
\nThough she has help and company both human and animal (including her dog, cats, the sheep, the squirrels, and some tame deer), her journal reveals the hardship, the rewards, and the self-awareness that come from a life lived on land and sea. Despite the strength in her fifty-year-old body, she feels the effects of the unrelenting work. \u00ab\u00a0Privy door frozen shut this morning,\u00a0\u00bb she writes. \u00ab\u00a0Logs like splitting into stone. My shoulder is suffering the strains of survival.\u00a0\u00bb She sums up: \u00ab\u00a0Survival is all here.\u00a0\u00bb The compensations are in the satisfaction of keeping the house warm and dry, surveying the beauty of the sunsets, and enjoying the visits from friends, family, her pets, and the local wildlife.<\/p>
\n<p><i>McNutt’s Island Journal<\/i> is one woman?s compelling account of living in a place where you must rely on your own resilience and stamina each and every day.
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