“Whenever the Six Brothers entered the bay on a return voyage, when the Egg Rock came into view, and beyond it Tibbetts Island, Matthias’s heart always skipped a beat. ‘One day’, Matthias told himself, ‘I will return home.’”Before Pa cleared the land, built a house, and brought his little family…

When Alice Rumphius was a little girl, she vowed that when she grew up she would travel the world and live in a house by the sea. “There is a third thing you must do,” her grandfather told her. “You must do something to make the world more beautiful.”Miss Rumphius…