A review by srash
Tisha: The Wonderful True Love Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness by Robert Specht

adventurous emotional funny inspiring tense fast-paced

5.0

Really interesting and very readable memoir about a young woman's first year as a teacher in 1920s Alaska. Anne Hobbs grew up in mining camps in the Lower 48, but she was still in for a shock when she arrived at the small mining community of Chicken. Her teaching methods were surprisingly engaging for the time period, but her pedagogy provokes the town much less than her insistence on teaching the local Native children and their mothers alongside the white students. Her budding romance with a half-Inuit miner named Fred also leads to a lot of anger from the local community. Great portrait of rural 1920s Alaska.