A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska: The Story of Hannah Breece - Hannah Breece - Books - Random House USA Inc - 9780679776338 - January 28, 1997
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When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests.  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.  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.  It is more than an adventure story:  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.  

"An unforgettable...story of a remarkable woman who lived a heroic life."--The New York Times

336 pages, 31 B&W PHOTOS AND 3 MAPS

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 28, 1997
ISBN13 9780679776338
Publishers Random House USA Inc
Pages 336
Dimensions 203 × 132 × 22 mm   ·   308 g
Language English  

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