Rockbound

<p>First published in 1928 this Canadian classic describes the lives of the people that make up an isolated fishing community on the fictional island of Rockbound off Nova Scotia. </p><p> </p><p>The book is set just before the start of the First World War in the opening years of the twentieth century. </p><p> </p><p>This novel may be described as being of its time but it still evokes the eternal battle between humans and their environment: the struggle of the fishermen to survive working in the harsh seas in order to earn their livings.</p><p> </p><p>Frank Parker Day (1881-1951) was a native of Nova Scotia and would have been able to draw on his own life experience to describe the island of Rockbound and its inhabitants.</p>