The Curve Of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet is a wonderful true life account of a woman who was unfortunately, left a widow in 1927, packed up her 5 children onto a 25ft boat and cruised the coastal waters of British Columbia, summer after summer.
Murial Wylie Blanchett acted single handedly as skipper, navigator, engineer and of course Mom as she saw her crew through encounters with tides, fog, storms, rapids, cougars and bears. She sharpened in her children a special interest in the rich traditions of the area’s First Nations communities, and in nature itself. Its a wonderful and compelling account of their journeys and I highly recommend it to anybody interested in setting off on their own adventures into the unknown…