Curve of Time
M. Wylie Blanchet
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Éditeur:
Whitecap Books Ltd.
Whitecap Books Ltd.
Protection:
Filigrane
Filigrane
Année de parution:
2011
2011
ISBN-13:
9781770500532
Description:
The 50th anniversary edition of this BC classic will make a timeless keepsake.</p><p>This is a biography and astonishing adventure story of a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packed her five children onto a 25-foot boat and cruised the coastal waters of British Columbia, summer after summer. <p>Muriel Wylie Blanchet acted single-handedly as skipper, navigator, engineer and, of course, mum, as she saw her crew through encounters with tides, fog, storms, rapids, cougars and bears. She sharpened in her children a special interest in Haida culture and in nature itself. <p>In this book, she left us with a sensitive and compelling account of their journeys.The 50th anniversary edition of this BC classic will make a timeless keepsake.</p><p>This is a biography and astonishing adventure story of a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packed her five children onto a 25-foot boat and cruised the coastal waters of British Columbia, summer after summer. <p>Muriel Wylie Blanchet acted single-handedly as skipper, navigator, engineer and, of course, mum, as she saw her crew through encounters with tides, fog, storms, rapids, cougars and bears. She sharpened in her children a special interest in Haida culture and in nature itself. <p>In this book, she left us with a sensitive and compelling account of their journeys.
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