M. Blanchet

Jan 11, 2024 | shepherd.com | Kim Brown Seely |M. Blanchet |Jonathan Raban |Herman Melville

The Curve of Time is a Northwest classic of coastal cruising. It’s a marvelous book with an almost dreamlike quality by a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packs her five children onto a 25-foot motor launch and explores the complex waters of  British Columbia summer after summer. Blanchet's account of their unstructured days in Desolation Sound reads almost like fiction, but her adventures are all very real. Why should I read it?