A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska
Title | A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Breece |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2008-12-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307490548 |
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
A Schoolteacher In Old Alaska
Title | A Schoolteacher In Old Alaska PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Jacobs |
Publisher | Vintage Canada |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2011-10-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 030736707X |
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, Inuit 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 settlers’ behaviour toward native communities at the turn of the century.
Schoolteacher in Old Alaska
Title | Schoolteacher in Old Alaska PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Breece |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781299267176 |
School Teacher in Old Alaska
Title | School Teacher in Old Alaska PDF eBook |
Author | J. Jacobs |
Publisher | Random House Value Pub |
Pages | |
Release | 1997-11-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780517197127 |
Tisha
Title | Tisha PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Specht |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1982-10-05 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780613143462 |
The author tells the story as told to him of Anne Hobbs, a woman who went to Alaska in the 1920's to teach, but who had trouble due to her kindness to the Indians there.
Tisha
Title | Tisha PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Specht |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2018-08-28 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1524798894 |
The beloved real-life story of a woman in the Alaskan wilderness, the children she taught, and the man she loved. “From the time I’d been a girl, I’d been thrilled with the idea of living on a frontier. So when I was offered the job of teaching school in a gold-mining settlement called Chicken, I accepted right away.” Anne Hobbs was only nineteen in 1927 when she came to harsh and beautiful Alaska. Running a ramshackle schoolhouse would expose her to more than just the elements. After she allowed Native American children into her class and fell in love with a half-Inuit man, she would learn the meanings of prejudice and perseverance, irrational hatred and unconditional love. “People get as mean as the weather,” she discovered, but they were also capable of great good. As told to Robert Specht, Anne Hobbs’s true story has captivated generations of readers. Now this beautiful new edition is available to inspire many more. “The memoir reads like an old-fashioned novel, a heartwarming love story with the added interest of frontier hardships and vividly portrayed characters.”—Publishers Weekly
The Year of Miss Agnes
Title | The Year of Miss Agnes PDF eBook |
Author | Kirkpatrick Hill |
Publisher | Margaret K. McElderry Books |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2020-08-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 153447854X |
A Smithsonian Notable Book for Children A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year “Genius.” —The New York Times Book Review A beautiful repackage marking the twentieth anniversary of the beloved, award-winning novel that celebrates teachers and learning. Ten-year-old Frederika (Fred for short) doesn’t have much faith that the new teacher in town will last very long. After all, they never do. Most teachers who come to their one-room schoolhouse in remote Alaska leave at the first smell of fish, claiming that life there is just too hard. But Miss Agnes is different: she doesn’t get frustrated with her students, and finds new ways to teach them to read and write. She even takes a special interest in Fred’s sister, Bokko, who has never come to school before because she is deaf. For the first time, Fred, Bokko, and their classmates begin to enjoy their lessons—but will Miss Agnes be like all the rest and leave as quickly as she came?