In Lives and Landscapes Elmer Harp captures a now-vanished way of life in stunning photographs and detailed descriptions. Until the 1960's, settlements on the west coast of the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland were isolated from each other and from the rest of the province. These coastal settlements, or outports, typically consisted of a few families who relied on the land, coast, and sea for their sustenance. Lives and Landscapes shows the richness of these small communities and the self-sufficient population who called the outports home.