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| Original Title: | Tisha |
| ISBN: | 0553265962 (ISBN13: 9780553265965) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Alaska(United States) |
Robert Specht
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 342 pages Rating: 4.29 | 6289 Users | 809 Reviews
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| Title | : | Tisha: The Wonderful True Love Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness |
| Author | : | Robert Specht |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 342 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 1984 by Bantam (first published April 1st 1976) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction |
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Alaska was as remote as the moon, as roistering and lawless as the Gold Rush. And a pretty young schoolteacher from Colorado like Anne Hobbs was even rarer than nuggets."So appealing are the people here, even the villainous ones; so dramatic is the landscape in which they act out their adventure; so pure is the moral conflict that forms the story's backbone, and so honest is its sentimentality - that I managed to suspend all my disbelief as I read it. And it was with pleasure that I raced through this good old-fashioned yarn, hissing the villains, holding my breath at each succeeding catastrophe, and above all adoring 'plain old Anne Hobbs.' as she calls herself, the pretty slip of a nineteen-year-old who in 1927 had the courage not only to brave the Alaska wilderness as a teacher in the tiny gold-mining community called Chicken, but also to face down the community's violent disapproval when she dared to treat the local Indians as human being..."Rating Containing Books Tisha: The Wonderful True Love Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
Ratings: 4.29 From 6289 Users | 809 ReviewsComment On Containing Books Tisha: The Wonderful True Love Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
The long winter nights and frigid temperatures of the arctic would overwhelm me. But I always like to read about other people's experiences. Here we have a girl raised in the lower 48 who goes north to teach in a small Alaskan village. Specht has brought this experience to life.I've read the book several times and always enjoyed it. (In some ways, it's reminiscent of Mrs. Mike, but I like this book better.)2019: It's been more than 20 years since I last read Tisha, but I was surprised by howOne of my top shelf favorite books of all time and a true story which takes place in Alaska in the late 1920's! I re-read this book every few years and never grow tired of it. It has all the elements to keep the reader hooked: adventure, living with hardship through a frigid Alaska winter, dogsled races, a student who perseveres despite a reading handicap, the heroic teacher who loves her students and despite all, bravely stands up to a community with a rigid backwards way of thinking (racism.)
This book was wonderful, and even better that it is a true story! I loved learning about the settlement of early Alaska and how education worked in the 1920's. Both were quite rough. Thankfully racism isn't as bad now as it was then, but biases are just as present. The ending kept me gripped and heart beating fast! Knowing it was a true story meant that the ending might be the happily ever after. But it didn't disappoint. If you can get your hand on this book, READ IT!
Why I liked this book:1)Its a true story about the pioneer days of Alaska2) Its a book about a woman fighting for what she believes in although the odds are stacked against her3) Its full of compassion and kindness4) Its got a full helping of romance, perseverance, adventure and hard work5) I like the ending.
2.75 starsYears ago I read Benedict Freedman's 'Mrs. Mike'. I loved the simple story of a marriage between a young woman and a Canadian Mountie. A clean romance, it went on my keeper shelf and I have read it several times since. In the meantime, the title of this book kept coming up on my recommended shelf here on Goodreads so I decided to give it a try.TISHA takes place in 1927 in the Alaskan Territory. It is about the one year that Anne Hobbs, a nineteen-year-old, spent teaching in the
I read this while on vacation and was having a hard time putting it down, when I was supposed to be going to Disney World! There is so much adventure and bravery and it's a TRUE story! The woman is so brave and wonderful in the way she treats the Native American children! I'm 1/2 Eskimo and live in Alaska and though I've mostly been treated well all of my life, I can only imagine what these Indian children were going through and what an angel Tisha must have been to them.I met one of the
The story of Annie Hobbs, who went to the remote village of Chicken, Alaska in the fall of 1927 to be the school teacher for a year. During the year she confronted the prejudices of the village towards the Indians and the half breeds. She also learned a lot about herself and what she was capable of doing. The title is a fracturing of the word Teacher as used by several of the children. I enjoyed this. It was sitting on my bookshelf and my memory is that I'd read it as a teen during my "I want
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