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    Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir Of A Woman And Her Children Who Explored The Coastal Waters Of The Pacific
    Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir Of A Woman And Her Children Who Explored The Coastal Waters Of The Pacific
    Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir Of A Woman And Her Children Who Explored The Coastal Waters Of The Pacific
    Audiobook7 hours

    Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir Of A Woman And Her Children Who Explored The Coastal Waters Of The Pacific

    Written by M. Wylie Blanchet

    Narrated by Heather Anne Henderson

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    About this audiobook

    After her husband died in 1927, leaving her with five small children, everyone expected the struggles of single motherhood on a remote island to overcome M. Wylie Blanchet. Instead, this courageous woman became one of the pioneers of “family travel,” acting as both mother and captain of the twenty-five-foot boat that became her family’s home during the long Northwest summers. Blanchet’s lyrically written account reads like fantastic fiction, but her adventures are all very real. There are dangers—rough water, bad weather, wild animals—but there are also the quiet respect and deep peace of a woman teaching her children the wonder and awesome depth of the natural world. “Filled with observations on natural history and the wonders of the wild, (Blanchet's) prose, like the waterfall she describes, sings.”—Kliatt
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPost Hypnotic Press
    Release dateJan 3, 2015
    ISBN9781927817445
    Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir Of A Woman And Her Children Who Explored The Coastal Waters Of The Pacific

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    • 4/5
      Wow what an intrepid, capable and robust single mom and kids! Inspiring story and interesting historical look into a family’s summer adventures along the British Columbian coast in the 1920s.
    • 5/5
      What a fantastic story. Makes me wish I was nearly as adventurous as this woman and her four kids.