The Library: Blue Latitudes
Here’s what we’re reading at the moment: a travelogue called Blue Latitudes: Boldly going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before. The author, Tony Horowitz, follows in the footsteps, or rather the wake,...
View ArticleThe Library: The Curve of Time
We finished this lovely little book a few weeks ago. It’s a collection of stories, told by Wylie Blanchet, of cruising the coast of British Columbia in the summers of the 1920s, with her five children...
View ArticleThe Library: We Took to the Woods
We just finished reading We Took to the Woods, by Louise Dickinson Rich. She wrote it in the 1930s while living in the backwoods of western Maine with her husband, son, and a friend of theirs. It...
View ArticleThe Library: Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass
We’ve been reading Finding Your Way Without a Map or Compass by Harold Gatty, first published in 1958. It’s a fascinating collection of navigation skills gleaned from the world of pre-Western and...
View ArticleThe Library: Four-by-four Driving
I recently added Four-by-four driving to my book collection. If you’re not already familiar with previous editions, they’re classics in 4×4 circles. The newly revised 3rd. edition was released this...
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