To live on an island is to experience a life apart. This exquisite book captures twenty-five of North America’s most charming island homes, including homes on islands off the coast of Maine, on the Northwest’s San Juan and Gulf Islands, the Pacific’s Hawaiian Islands, and the Grenadines in the Caribbean, as well as other homes on privately owned or low-density islands...

To live on an island is to experience a life apart. This exquisite book captures twenty-five of North America’s most charming island homes, including homes on islands off the coast of Maine, on the Northwest’s San Juan and Gulf Islands, the Pacific’s Hawaiian Islands, and the Grenadines in the Caribbean, as well as other homes on privately owned or low-density islands.

The island home reflects its owner’s reason for escape, either from the more populated mainland or from the conveniences of the modern world, as island life often requires a return to the basics. The island homeowner is individualistic, socially conscious, and creative, and every space in Island Living fulfills its owner’s dreams of privacy, harmoW with the surroundings, and most important, having a chance to take a closer look at the world.

With more than 250 images and the transporting and distinctive tone that Paul’s readers have come to love, Island Living is a book of fantasy: of delightful homes on land that the owners have built into a meditative landscape.

acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

PART I： Capturing the Horizon

haiku

vinalhaven

clingstone

avalon

fishers island

chilmark, martha’s vineyard

PART II: Into the Bold

orcas island

eagle island

deer isle

gulf islands

cape breton island

spring island

PART III: Sailing into Architecture

vashon island

nantucket

north shore

galiano island

moon hole

bequia

PART IV: Harmonizing Mysteries

rainbow rock

aquinnah, martha’s vineyard

decatur

cranberry island

islesboro

san juan islands

PART V: Recycling the Universe

conclusion: lava flow