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Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0679776338
ISBN-13: 9780679776338
Product ID: EPID257633
Description: The story of Hannah Breece, a schoolteacher who, in 1904, went to Alaska at age 45. Her memoirs recount the many hardships she faced there, as well as the success she had in "elevating" the local Indian, Inuit, and Russian population. Br...
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Synopsis
The story of Hannah Breece, a schoolteacher who, in 1904, went to Alaska at age 45. Her memoirs recount the many hardships she faced there, as well as the success she had in "elevating" the local Indian, Inuit, and Russian population. Breece's belief (typical of her time) in the superiority of the dominant American culture is tempered throughout by her compassion and her common sense. She was a remarkable woman who was ahead of her time in many ways.

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Publication Date:1997-01-01
Editor:Jane Jacobs

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Height:8.3 in
Width:5.0 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:11.2 oz

Publisher's Note
At once an eyewitness account of America's last frontier and an important work of women's history, this fascinatingly original book is the memoir of Hannah Breece, who from 1904 to 1918 taught Aleuts, Indians, Inuits, and Russians in the desolate wilderness of Alaska. 32 photos. 3 maps.

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, Hannahs great-niece, here offers an historical context to Breeces 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 womens 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

Industry Reviews
"This is the kind of book you stay awake worrying won't get published anymore...I am quite sure that [Hannah Breece] left a piece of her remarkable resolve and dignity in every home whose child she cared for. She was all thousand points of light in one body."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Susan Salter Reynolds (02/25/1996)

"Her memoir is a fascinating account of falls through the ice, eating bear, crossing dangerous glacial streams, a sled-dog attack, and lonely homesickness for the sun. Breece desired to civilize not 'whiticize' the natives, and educators will wish she had included more details on classroom technique."
Booklist - Patricia Hassler (12/15/1995)

"... 'A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska' is not only a good story, but good history.... Jane Jacobs, in her own late 70s, came to an appreciation of her great-aunt in her historical setting. And, happily, Jacobs bequeathed us a rare record of old Alaska when optimism animated teachers as well as gold-seekers."
Washington Post Book World - Luree Miller (02/25/1996)

"Ms. Jacobs has done us all a service by bringing out this memoir in unexpurgated form. It is the story of a remarkable woman who lived a heroic life."
New York Times Book Review - Richard Bernstein (04/10/1996)

"...this memoir of Breece's 14 years in Alaska is the revealing testimony of a woman who was typical of her times yet extraordinary in how she rose above them."
Kirkus Reviews (11/15/1995)

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