Author: JACOBS, JANE
Title: A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska the Story of Hannah Breece
Description: Toronto: Random House Canada, 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394224760. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, sun-faded on spine. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 302 pages; "Over fifty years ago Hannah Breece bestowed upon her great niece, Jane Jacobs, her manuscript, roughly culled together from diaries and letters from when she was a school teacher in Alaska and the Yukon. In the summer of 1994, Ms. Jacobs traveled to Alaska to do the research necessary to complete her great aunt's book. In 1904, Hannah Breece set off for Alaska, where she was sent by the American government to teach Aleuts, Dina'ina, Athabascans, and people of mixed-European and Native blood. She remained in Alaska until 1918 and in this book tells her story. Diary-like in its mingling of domestic matters, work, public events and chance encounters, Hannah Breece's narrative is spiced with litany of adventures, for she was a women who went anywhere and stood up to anybody.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0394224760 Alaska Aleuts
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Title: A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska the Story of Hannah Breece
Description: Toronto: Random House Canada, 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394224760. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, sun-faded on spine. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 302 pages; "Over fifty years ago Hannah Breece bestowed upon her great niece, Jane Jacobs, her manuscript, roughly culled together from diaries and letters from when she was a school teacher in Alaska and the Yukon. In the summer of 1994, Ms. Jacobs traveled to Alaska to do the research necessary to complete her great aunt's book. In 1904, Hannah Breece set off for Alaska, where she was sent by the American government to teach Aleuts, Dina'ina, Athabascans, and people of mixed-European and Native blood. She remained in Alaska until 1918 and in this book tells her story. Diary-like in its mingling of domestic matters, work, public events and chance encounters, Hannah Breece's narrative is spiced with litany of adventures, for she was a women who went anywhere and stood up to anybody.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0394224760 Alaska Aleuts
Price: US$ 15.00 Seller: Ainsworth Books
- Book number: 20790
- Book number: 20790
See more books from our catalog: Native Studies::Alaska