Journal of an Aleutian Year

By Ethel Ross Oliver

Book Overview

In 1942 the Japanese captured the Aleutian Island village of Attu and the Attuans spent the war at forces labor in a Japanese prison camp. Other villages were evacuated to camps in Southeast Alaska... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295965673
• ISBN13: 9780295965673
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Read this if you have interest in the Aleutians

One of several books by Alaskan teachers set in the post-WWII era. It takes place on the far end of the Aleutian Chain. The writer/ teacher is an older woman who goes back with her husband (a Norwegian-Eskimo) to the area where he grew up. Perhaps because of his ties to the area the author and her husband seem to avoid many of the bumps that other teacher/ authors write about in their Alaskan memoirs. The forward is invaluable in orienting the reader to the changes that have taken place in Akta since the author's stay in 1946. I especially like the way the chapters were divided by months and named according to their Aleut descriptions and translations. The author covers how she individualized teaching in a one room schoolhouse and gives other hints that could be useful even today for a teacher in bush Alaska. With the exception of the forward this book covers only one year in 1946. Those persons who have interest in WWII, especially the occupation of the Aleutians by Japanese forces, or interest or plans to visit the Aleutians will appreciate this book. It was written in an obviously caring way.