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Cargando... A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breecepor Hannah Breece
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. NA This book has been languishing on my shelf for over fifteen years now. I think I started reading it a couple times but never finished it. It's an easy book to put down and not pick back up again, because it's rather dry, unlike other books of this sort. I'm thinking of CHRISTY, MRS MIKE, or TISHA - all wonderful books about teachers in remote or primitive regions. Hannah Breece's A SCHOOLTEACHER IN OLD ALASKA, maybe because she was much older - in her 40s and 50s - is much dryer, lacking the charm of those books about very young, inexperienced women. But it was interesting to read about the natives, villages and fish camps of Kodiak Island, Iliamna and Fort Yukon of more than a hundred years ago. Breece's great-niece, Jane Jacobs, did a marvelous job of editing and organizing the original manuscript, and added close to a hundred pages of notes and a fascinating epilogue about those same villages and areas as they are today. An enjoyable, mildly interesting record of frontier Alaska. - Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER Entertaining book from the journals of a schoolteacher in remote parts of Alaska. She was incredibly intrepid about traveling great distances, and worked hard to educate not just children but their parents about cleanliness, health, and “civilization”. It’s clear she has a low opinion of their values and standards of living, but she also seems to have affectionate relationships with many people. Her niece, Jane Jacobs of city planning fame, organized her writings and explained the background of many of the events and characters who appear. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests.nbsp;nbsp;She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuits, and Russians with the stubborn generosity of a born teacher and the clarity of an original and independent mind.nbsp;nbsp;Jane Jacobs, Hannah's great-niece, here offers an historical context to Breece's remarkable eyewitness account, filling in the narrative gaps, but always allowing the original words to ring clearly.nbsp;nbsp;It is more than an adventure story:nbsp;nbsp;it is a powerful work of women's history that provides important--and, at times, unsettling--insights into the unexamined assumptions and attitudes that governed white settler's behavior toward native communities at the turn of the century.nbsp;nbsp; "An unforgettable...story of a remarkable woman who lived a heroic life."--The New York Times No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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