The Curve of Time - Softcover

Blanchet, M. Wylie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0888260717 ISBN 13: 9780888260710

Publisher: Gray's Publishing / Whitecap Books, 1977

Synopsis

Book by Blanchet, M. Wylie

About this title

Review:

"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

The Curve of Time features stories from the summer adventures of M. Wylie Blanchet and her family. This accomplished sea woman and her five children braved the gulfs, straits, and fjords that separate Vancouver Island from mainland British Columbia, Canada, during the 1920s and 1930s on their 25-foot cruiser, Caprice. From searching for the elusive sea horse to following Orca whales through rapids created by swiftly changing tides, Blanchet describes a time so recent, and yet so very far away. This book is playful and exciting, a trip that unites the reader with a family of adventurers that is one of a kind.

About the Author:

M. Wylie Blanchet was born Muriel Wylie Liffiton on May 2, 1891, in Montreal, Quebec. She married Geoffrey Orme Blanchet in 1909, but was widowed in 1926, leaving her to raise five children on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. For several summers Muriel, her children, and the family dog set off in a twenty-five foot motorboat, the Caprice, to explore the waters between Vancouver Island and the rugged Canadian mainland. They were on their own, with Muriel as captain, anchoring in secluded coves to tramp the wilderness, examining architecture and burial grounds in deserted native villages, and meeting the region's various human and animal inhabitants. Muriel wrote about their journeys, and was successful in having articles published in magazines such as Blackwood's and Atlantic Monthly. In 1962, the year Muriel died, Blackwood & Sons of Edinburgh, Scotland published The Curve in Time, which described several summers of the family explorations. In 1968, Gray Publishing in Canada printed a second edition of The Curve in Time, and since then it has earned a reputation as a Canadian classic. In 1982 Harbour Publishing printed A Whale Named Henry, a children's story Muriel wrote for her family in the 1930s. Harbour has also published Edith Iglauer's informative profile of Blanchet in The Strangers Next Door.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gray's Publishing / Whitecap Books
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0888260717
• ISBN 13: 9780888260710
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224