One night in August, Debra Dawson and her boyfriend were vacationing on Jonathan Island, an almost 3-acre plot off the coast of Narragansett, R.I. Their motorboat had broken down and they had no way ...

No doubt a result of Greece's economic crisis, news of hotel openings there has been scarce. But Silver Island, a fragrant pine- and olive-clad islet off the coast of Evia is just that. It is a new ...

FOR the last 16 years, Nick Fahey has been living on an island in the San Juan archipelago north of Puget Sound, in Washington state, where his only full-time companion is a 26-year-old quarter horse ...

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It was drizzling and foggy in the early afternoon as our taxi driver loaded our luggage onto the deck of his little motorboat and pulled away for the four-kilometre trip north to Île Verte. It was ...

In early November, as she has done for the last 19 years, Maine photographer Alexandra de Steiguer will leave civilization behind. She will sail from Portsmouth Harbor to Star Island, one of nine that ...

After acting as a frontline in the defence against a communist invasion of Taiwan, the islanders are re-familiarizing themselves with the tranquil routines of country life. There is nothing like ...