The Curve of Time: 50th Anniversary edition [B0142]

2011 HCDJ in excellent condition. 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, cougars and bears with the high spirits, the courage and the respect for native cultures and the natural world of a bona fide pioneer. "Our world then was both wide and narrow -- wide in the immensity of 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."-- M. Wylie Blanchet.

From Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Wonderful stories about a family's summer trips in British Columbia. I really enjoyed it. Excited to refer to it as we take our cruise up the inside passage of British Columbia. It is a wonderful book that we always recommend to our friends and acquaintances. Everyone loves this book."; "With each chapter, I was pulled vividly and happily back to a time closer to sea and land, when sturdy people needed little more than their ingenuity and curiosity to shape a full life. A joy."; "I loved reading this book. Capi was an incredible woman full of vim and vigor. Being from the PNW and a sailor, I loved thinking about those special places she got to go to by sea."