In 1848, Ranald MacDonald--son of a Hudson's Bay Company official and Chinook Indian princess--convinced the captain of an American whaling ship to cast him adrift in a rowboat off the northern Japanese coast. Held captive for nearly a year, MacDonald taught English to Japanese interpreters, some of whom interpreted for Commodore Perry when the U.S. Navy forced Japan to open its doors to outsiders in the 1850s. After his release, MacDonald traveled the world before returning to the Pacific Northwest to join the British ...
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In 1848, Ranald MacDonald--son of a Hudson's Bay Company official and Chinook Indian princess--convinced the captain of an American whaling ship to cast him adrift in a rowboat off the northern Japanese coast. Held captive for nearly a year, MacDonald taught English to Japanese interpreters, some of whom interpreted for Commodore Perry when the U.S. Navy forced Japan to open its doors to outsiders in the 1850s. After his release, MacDonald traveled the world before returning to the Pacific Northwest to join the British Columbia gold rush.
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Fine. Pictorial wraps. 256pp. Illus. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed to your bookseller by Roe. Biography by an accomplished historian of the great 19th Century traveler. MacDonald "entered secretive Japan in 1848", & traveled around the Pacific from the Pacific Northwest to Asia. He was the "son of a high-ranking Chinook woman and a Hudson's Bay Company official." (at Fort Vancouver, & the Red River of the North. Fine.
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