“Duck Ledges Island,” the listing read, “offered in its entirety.”The accompanying photos showed a scene of stark beauty: a tiny spit of rock sitting in clear blue waters, with a little cabin on it and nothing else — not even a single tree — to block the 360-degree views of ocean and sky. The island was in Wohoa Bay, in Downeast Maine, along a section of rocky coastline known as the Bold Coast. To anyone who has fantasized about their own private island getaway — and who hasn’t, judging by the way such idylls capture worldwide attention? — the ad for Duck Ledges, when it appeared last June, was a clarion call. She had to sell her house, she said, with its Victorian garden she’d grown and tended over a decade.

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Persons: “, —, Charlotte Gale, Gale Locations: Wohoa Bay, Downeast Maine, New Jersey