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

I really, really wanted to like this book more. The title is so alluring, and the fact that it's a memoir about a widowed woman and her five children sailing alone over a series of summers in British Columbia in the late 1920s-early 1930s is fascinating. The book leaves an impression of place and time and wonder, and it's rich with the geography, anthropology, and natural history of the Pacific Northwest. But it's a bit dense and so...impersonal! I remember thinking halfway through the book that I only knew the names of 3 of her children. I would have liked to get to know the author better--her life, her husband's death (he disappeared one day and their boat was found unmanned), etc.

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