In this guidebook, wide-roaming author John Gibson takes travelers to all the Maine islands that are accessible by public ferry. In addition to providing the ex

In this meditation on religion and science, Lightman explores the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty, and the modern scientific discoveri

Island Institute founder Philip Conkling writes about Maine island residents and wildlife from prehistoric times to the present. He examines the geology and cli

In 1991, Crash Barry moved to Maine's most remote inhabited island to work as a sternman aboard a lobster boat. On Matinicus, twenty miles out to sea, populatio