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Leslie Glendower Peabody

  • “... the only thing a canoe really demands of you is a nice sense of poise, and a getting back to those antique laws of equilibrium, laws that get lost in the hurrying world of today.”

    • Leslie Glendower Peabody,
    • "The Canoe and the Woman," in Outing ()

  • “To me, being told to sit still and enjoy myself is logically incompatible.”

    • Leslie Glendower Peabody,
    • "The Canoe and the Woman," in Outing ()

Leslie Glendower Peabody, U.S. canoeist, writer

(1870 - ?)