As an American woman on the Alaskan frontier at the turn of the century, Hannah Breece challenged the wilderness to teach native children. This moving, gripping account of her many adventures tells of Hannah camping with Indians, being attacked by wild dogs, and facing death on many occasions. 30 photos.
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As an American woman on the Alaskan frontier at the turn of the century, Hannah Breece challenged the wilderness to teach native children. This moving, gripping account of her many adventures tells of Hannah camping with Indians, being attacked by wild dogs, and facing death on many occasions. 30 photos.
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Good in Acceptable jacket. Hardcover First edition with dust jacket. Jacket has sunning to a section of the spine. Internally clean, unmarked pages and sound binding. Prompt shipping.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 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."
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As New in Fine jacket. Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2"tall. 302 pages including Index. Edited and with an Introduction and Commentary by Jane Jacobs. A like new copy in a fine Dust Jacket.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xxii+, 302pp., index, notes, photos, maps. Life in Alaska of the early 20th century, edited by the author's neice, the late Jane Jacobs. "With her foreword and comprehensive notes, Jane Jacobs complements Hannah's story to give us a vivid picture of old Alaska, of the infant settlements of Fairbanks, Kodiak and Seward, and of the amazing Hannah Breece, who conquered its frozen wilderness, loved its children and made it her home."