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The Curve of Time - M. Wylie Blanchet
The Curve of Time
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The fascinating true adventure of widowed Muriel Wylie Blanchet who packed her five children onto a 25-foot boat at the end of the 1920s, and acting as skipper, navigator, engineer and mother, took her family into the coastal waters of Vancouver Island, summer after summer, charting a world they... show more
The fascinating true adventure of widowed Muriel Wylie Blanchet who packed her five children onto a 25-foot boat at the end of the 1920s, and acting as skipper, navigator, engineer and mother, took her family into the coastal waters of Vancouver Island, summer after summer, charting a world they made their own, encountering storms, fogs, rough seas, cougers and bears with the high spirits, the courage and the respect for native cultures and the natural world of a bona fida pioneer.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781878067272 (1878067273)
ASIN: 1878067273
Publisher: Seal Pr
Pages no: 170
Edition language: English
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Austen to Zafón
Austen to Zafón rated it
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Why: A friend said that this book was a pleasure and an inspiration. In the 1920s and 30s, the author loaded her kids onto a 25' motorboat for several months of exploring all the bays and inlets near Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia each summer. She visits still-used winter Indian ...
The Drift Of Things
The Drift Of Things rated it
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I do so wish I had written a review of this after I read it. I'll have to get it from the library again someday. I loved this part about the "Little House" they lived in: "When we first lived there, the big firs and balsams grew very close to the house. So close that they could lean across and wh...
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