Audrey Sutherland, Paddler of Her Own Canoe

Once, when asked by the travel writer Paul Theroux why she traveled alone, she replied: “I don’t. I have three people within me — the paddler, sizing up the conditions. The critic, nagging me and telling me I’ll never make it. And the writer, standing back and trying to remember it all.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/obituaries/audrey-sutherland-overlooked.html