I have a soft spot for journal-like memoirs that take place along the Inside Passage from Vancouver to Alaska. Joe Upton's Alaska Blues, Edith Iglauer's Fishing with John, Jonathan Raban's Passage to Juneau: these are some favorite books of mine. The Curve of Time is a family-oriented contribution to the genre. The author is a single mother of five who, in the late 1920s, spends summers cruising the British Columbia coast with her family in a 25-foot boat.
The Curve of Time is a disconnected collection of anecdotes, and the author never establishes the children's characters -- in fact, I'd be hard-pressed to name them all. But I can't be objective about the subject matter, the period photographs, the nautical charts on the endpages, or the watercolor on the cover of this 50th anniversary edition.
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