The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest (Adventura Books)

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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

What Customers Say About The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest (Adventura Books):

I originally found Ms. I was inspired over and over again as has everyone I have given it to.I have space for exactly four favorite books in my library, I won't add another one unless one is removed. First was this mysterious window into a world long gone.

I had no idea what I stumbled into. Second was the story of a woman with and amazing strength and humble spirit. Blanchet's book in a bibliography for an obscure book on kayaking and read it purely on speculation.

Ancient native villages still looking as if their residents just left, lonely hermits on remote islands, a land unspoiled. Now, having read it two more times and giving it as a gift on several occasions, I can say this is truly one of the most special books ever written.The stories of Ms. Blanchet and her children sailing up the Inside Passage during the 20's and 30's captured me in two ways.

How she managed to use her dingy to tow the incapacitated power boat, disassemble the engine, then fix and restart a broken magneto is unbelievable, yet obviously true. The Curve of Time will always be one of the four.

I also found books on Emily Carr just to learn more about this area and time. Her insight and comments reveal a woman much more in tune with her world and the disappearing one of the native Pacific Northwest people.

I keep telling myself this woman would have been a contemporary of my great grandmother. It is amazing to me when I think of what she did with her family.

I really enjoyed this book. It is one of those books you find yourself marveling at and leaves you feeling you need to be a bit more adventurous with your own family.

There is absolutely no way anyone in my family back then would have tried this. (Even the ones who homesteaded).

Because of this book I also read "Following the Curve of Time" (which was ok but a dissapointment--I wanted to learn more about this author). If you're a "women in history" fan, this book is good.

If you are from the Pacific NW, you will love this book. Even if you are not, it is an excellent adventure along the coast of Vancouver.

This book is beautifully written, full of vivid imagery of the stark and wild beauty of the northwest, and equally full of one woman's spirit and love for her family. It is a book I will turn to again and again.

This story was expecially fun for me to read because this woman lived in a time and near a place of my own grandmother. She took hold of her life after the death of her husband and shared wonderful adventures with her children each summer in the waters and byways of the Canadian BC inland waterways. She did this in an era where her family said she should sell everything and "move home where it was safer" A real joy to read. Carol Hage Wall, Oak Harbor, WashingtonThe Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest (Adventura Books)