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Blanchet herself wrote that the book "is neither a story nor a log; it is just an account of many long sunny summer months, during many years when the children were young and old enough to take on camping holidays up the coast of
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in the 1920s and 1930s. Through at least eleven editions, it has become regarded as a classic of regional literature and travel writing, although
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are now legal protections against the removal of indigenous property, but in Capi’s time no such regulations existed and cultural sensitivities were discounted.”
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