namesake

earlier this summer, nicole sent me a 1914 first edition of the most interesting book 

entitled The Cruise of the Janet Nichol, 

Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson's Diary of a South Sea Cruise. 

a self-confessed book snob (classics, victorian...), this book suits me perfectly.

did you know that robert louis stevenson's wife, fanny, also wrote and published?

she kept a diary of a three month south sea voyage they took leaving sydney

in 1890 aboard the ship, the Janet Nichol.

janet nichol, hey, that's my name!  thank you nicole, for this unique, beautiful 

and adventurous, summer read namesake.