On a 5 week paddle in Canada's Northwest Territories this summer, my wife read me long excerpts from this woman's adventures in the Faroe Islands in 1915.....the description of boiled puffins... well it DID take my mind off the storm-tossed lake out our tent door. And, it is very much about boats and water. The Far Islands and Other Cold Places : Travel Essays of a Victorian Lady Elizabeth Taylor, James Taylor Dunn (Editor); Paperback It can be found at amazon.com if you are interested. rich dempsey ridem_at_msn.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
In a message dated 11/15/1999 8:58:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, RiDem_at_email.msn.com writes: << The Far Islands and Other Cold Places : Travel Essays of a Victorian Lady Elizabeth Taylor, James Taylor Dunn (Editor); Paperback >> Oh, well, while we're on the topic of women's diaries, here's another: "Libby - The Alaskan Diaries and Letters of Libby Beaman, 1879-1880,..." ISBN 0-395-49325-0 PB $9.95 Sandy Kramer who has decided that you P'wisers have "forced" me to go to the Book Fair next weekend to see if she can find (cheap, I hope) some of the books on the new shopping list - fortunately it's payday on Friday. And yes, I do frequent my library assiduously, it's just that I have a hard time finding what I'm looking for and, for some strange reason, never bother about putting it on the inter-library request list. I guess it's cos I'm an "instant gratification" person. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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