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...
When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priest...
"An Everyday Kind of Beautiful" is a children's book about our experience of the beautiful in our lives. The text is designed to raise common philosophical questions about beauty and the human experience in a way that is accessible to children and that engages them in active discussion. The back of the book includes a "grown-up" version of the same reflections, but in a more academic manner that engages the philosophers and writers whose works inspired this book, including Plato and Tolstoy.
"An Everyday Kind of Beautiful" is a children's book about our experience of the beautiful in our lives. The text is designed to raise common philosop...
