Many of our clients mention spending the winter catching up on their reading (the frozen-over Miramichi River lends itself to this pastime) and though we’re now prepping for the 2010 season at our winter base in Alabama, we thought we might stay connected to New Brunswick by reading and reviewing books highlighting the diverse culture and history of the Miramichi region.
“The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor” by Sally Armstrong was a book given to me by a person I have gotten to know through the last several fishing seasons in New Brunswick. Her family has very strong roots in New Brunswick, and her father actually still lives there.
In a brief review of the book done by Amazon.com you can see Charlotte’s path was a true testimony of perseverance in tough times:
“The epic true story of Charlotte Taylor, as told by her great-great-great-granddaughter, one of Canada’s foremost journalists.
In 1775, twenty-year-old Charlotte Taylor fled her English country house with her lover, the family’s black butler. To escape the fury of her father, they boarded a ship for the West Indies, but ten days after reaching shore, Charlotte’s lover died of yellow fever, leaving her alone and pregnant in Jamaica.
Undaunted, Charlotte swiftly made an alliance with a British naval commodore, who plied a trading route between the islands and British North America, and traveled north with him. She landed at the Baie de Chaleur, in what is present-day New Brunswick, where she found refuge with the Mi’kmaq and birthed her baby. In the sixty-six years that followed, she would have three husbands, nine more children and a lifelong relationship with an aboriginal man.
Charlotte Taylor lived in the front row of history, walking the same paths as the expelled Acadians, the privateers of the British-American War and the newly arriving Loyalists. In a rough and beautiful landscape, she struggled to clear and claim land, and battled the devastating epidemics that stalked her growing family. Using a seamless blend of fact and fiction, Charlotte Taylor’s great-great-great-granddaughter, Sally Armstrong, reclaims the life of a dauntless and unusual woman and delivers living history with all the drama and sweep of a novel.”
In reading the book I felt a strong connection to the culture that continues to exist in the Maritimes. Charlotte Taylor was a woman who followed her heart to survival, which has inspired me as a female in the same area she helped settle. So far we’re at a 100% positive review rate … I highly recommend!
“The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor” by Sally Armstrong was a book given to me by a person I have gotten to know through the last several fishing seasons in New Brunswick. Her family has very strong roots in New Brunswick, and her father actually still lives there.
In a brief review of the book done by Amazon.com you can see Charlotte’s path was a true testimony of perseverance in tough times:
“The epic true story of Charlotte Taylor, as told by her great-great-great-granddaughter, one of Canada’s foremost journalists.
In 1775, twenty-year-old Charlotte Taylor fled her English country house with her lover, the family’s black butler. To escape the fury of her father, they boarded a ship for the West Indies, but ten days after reaching shore, Charlotte’s lover died of yellow fever, leaving her alone and pregnant in Jamaica.
Undaunted, Charlotte swiftly made an alliance with a British naval commodore, who plied a trading route between the islands and British North America, and traveled north with him. She landed at the Baie de Chaleur, in what is present-day New Brunswick, where she found refuge with the Mi’kmaq and birthed her baby. In the sixty-six years that followed, she would have three husbands, nine more children and a lifelong relationship with an aboriginal man.
Charlotte Taylor lived in the front row of history, walking the same paths as the expelled Acadians, the privateers of the British-American War and the newly arriving Loyalists. In a rough and beautiful landscape, she struggled to clear and claim land, and battled the devastating epidemics that stalked her growing family. Using a seamless blend of fact and fiction, Charlotte Taylor’s great-great-great-granddaughter, Sally Armstrong, reclaims the life of a dauntless and unusual woman and delivers living history with all the drama and sweep of a novel.”
In reading the book I felt a strong connection to the culture that continues to exist in the Maritimes. Charlotte Taylor was a woman who followed her heart to survival, which has inspired me as a female in the same area she helped settle. So far we’re at a 100% positive review rate … I highly recommend!
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