A schoolteacher in old Alaska
Subtitle: the story of Hannah Breece
By: edited, and with an introduction and commentary by Jane Jacobs
Contributors: Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780679441342; 9780679776338
Subjects: Eskimos; Indians of North America; Inuits; Éducation; Biographies; Histoire; Indiens; Teachers; Education; Enseignantes; Biography; History
Other titles: School teacher in old Alaska
Description: 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.
Notes: Colored maps on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Memoir by Hannah Breece: Prelude to my assignment; title: Welcome to Afognak; title: Organizing the school; title: Sunday school crisis; title: Seasons; title: Russian ceremonies; title: Kodiak, Wood Island and Seward; title: Wild-goose chase into the Interior; title: Life on Wood Island; title: Back to Iliamna; title: School in Iliamna; title: Surviving in the cold; title: Nondalton Fishing Camp; title: Fish famine; title: Second famine year; title: Waiting for the steamer; title: To the Arctic Circle; title: Long journeys to court; title: Last assignments; title: Commentary: Puzzles, tangles, clarifications: Educational policy and Sheldon Jackson; title: Reindeer project; title: Bureaucracy; title: Fort Yukon troubles; title: Fellow teachers; title: Miraculous rescues; title: Who was Gregory?; title: Epilogue.