Curve of Time by Blanchet M Wylie
After her husband died in 1927, leaving her with five small children, everyone expected the struggles of single motherhood on a remote island to overcome M. Wylie Blanchet. Instead, this courageous woman became one of the pioneers of "family travel," acting as both mother and captain of the twenty-five-foot boat that became her family's home during the long Northwest summers. Blanchet's lyrically written account reads like fantastic fiction, but her adventures are all very real. There are dangersrough water, bad weather, wild animalsbut there are also the quiet respect and deep peace of a woman teaching her children the wonder and awesome depth of the natural world. "Filled with observations on natural history and the wonders of the wild, (Blanchet's) prose, like the waterfall she describes, sings. "Kliatt"Jacqueline (Jacqui) Matthews is currently a Senior Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, and the Professor of Protein Chemistry at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on regulatory proteins involved in development and disease, and in particular on protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions within transcription factor complexes. Dr. Matthews received her undergraduate training (BSc Hons) in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and a PhD in biological chemistry (for work on protein folding under the supervision of Sir Professor Alan Fersht) from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is currently President of the Sydney Protein Group, a member of the Executive Council of the Protein Society and a member of the Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Australian Biophysical Society.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781580050722 |
| ISBN 10 | 1580050727 |
| Title | Curve of Time |
| Author | Blanchet M Wylie |
| Series | Adventura Bks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Seal Press |
| Year published | 2002-03-18 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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