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Bezig met laden... An Army Doctor's Wife on the Frontier: The Letters of Emily McCorkle FitzGerald from Alaska and the Far West, 1874-78door Emily McCorkle FitzGerald
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Very interesting and readable, but tends to get repetitive when they are not traveling to a new assignment or getting settled in. Then again,you forget sometimes just how young Emily was - far into the book, she only then was turning 25. Some important life events are not covered here because the letters are missing, and after the last letter, you get only one paragraph about the rest of her life (1878-1912). There's more information in the introduction, but it seemed odd and out of order to put 'the rest of her life' up front instead of at the end. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Emily FitzGerald was one of the first white women to live in Alaska, less than a decade after the United States purchased it from Russia. In 1874 she accompanied her husband to Sitka, where he was surgeon at an army post. These letters to her mother in Philadelphia describe the rigors of raising children and making a home on the frontier, the social life of an army wife, and the long waits for steamers to bring mail and supplie Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)973.8History and Geography North America United States 1865-1901LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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