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A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska

by Hannah Breece
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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
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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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  • Release date: December 31, 2008

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  • ISBN: 9780307490544
  • Release date: December 31, 2008

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  • ISBN: 9780307490544
  • File size: 5073 KB
  • Release date: December 31, 2008
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Biography & Autobiography History Sociology Nonfiction

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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
Expand title description text
Biography & Autobiography History Sociology Nonfiction