Watch for a Tall White Sail

by Margaret E. Bell

Book Overview

Florence moves with her family to an isolated part of Alaska where the only contact with the outside world is by sailing schooner that stoped two or three times a year with supplies, news, and mail... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• ISBN: B0023X3A68
• Release Date: January 1962
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

would love to own this book from my childhood

as a junior high student I read this book and fell in love with southeast alaska. I now make my home in Craig, Alaska.This small fishing village was named after the handsome sailboat captain. When I moved to Craig, as a library volunteer, I was able to read all the books that she wrote. I'd also bet this book was the start of my love for historical romances.Books are what make winters in these small worlds open up to beautiful dreams.

This book changed my life.

The story is about a young girl who moves with her family to an isolated area where the only contact with the outside world is by sailing schooner that stoped two or three times a year with supplies, news, and mail brought by a handsome young captain. I read this book when I was 11 years old and was enchanted by the environment in the story. I later met Margaret Bell (the author) when I was in Sitka, Alaska and found that her own personal story was even more romantic and adventerous than the books she wrote. She was 94 at the time I met her and was in the process of writing her autobiography. I have looked for that book for years and never found it. Perhaps she never completed it. Ms. Bell's own father was the captain of a supply boat that visited the villages along the southeast coast of Alaska. She grew up on that boat and later in life, after a failed marriage, moved to an isolated island where she, the bears, and two misogynist bachelors (to whom she never spoke) were the only residents. Margaret had a very limited supply of money and moved into an abandodned cabin and wrote for a year. I was so taken with the story and Ms. Bell's own life that I currently live on a sail boat and have dreams of sailing to Alaska and spending years exploring the many islands along the Inside Passage.