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A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska
The Story of Hannah Breece
by Jane Jacobs
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. Illustrated
with B&W photos and a map on front endpapers
Vintage Books/Random House, New York, 1997, first Vintage printing, 302
pages, 5 1/8" x 8", trade paperback, illustrated.
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