Download or read book "Time by Moments Steals Away" written by Robert L. Root and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Edgerton Douglass's diary recounts her winter journey from Detroit to Wisconsin and then her life through autumn and into the following winter on Isle Royale, where her husband had been hired to supervise a mining operation. She shares something of the contrast between the city life she had known and the backwoods existence she came to lead with her husband.