The Curve of Time / M. Wylie Blanchet.
"Time did not exist; or if it did it did not mater. Our world then was both wide and narrow--wide in the immensity of the sea and mountain; narrow in that the boat was very small, and we lived and camped, explored and swam in a little realm of our own making..."This is the fascinating true adventure story of a woman who packed her five children onto a twenty-five-foot boat and explored the coastal waters of British Columbia summer after summer in the 1920s and 1930s. Acting single-handedly as skipper, navigator, engineer and of course, mother, Muriel Wylie Blanchet saw her crew through exciting--and sometimes perilous--encounters with fog; rough seas, cougars, bears and whales, and did so with high spirits and courage. On these pages an independent woman with a deep respect for the native cultures of a region, and a refreshing wonderment about the natural world, comes to life. In The Curve of Time, she has left us with a sensitive and lyrically written account of their journeys and a timeless travel memoir not to be missed.
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- ISBN: 9781786258342
- ISBN: 178625834X
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Publisher: San Francisco : Pickle Partners Publishing, 2016.
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