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Ranald MacDonald: Pacific Rim Adventurer by JoAnn Roe, Jo Ann Roe (Paperback / softback, 1997)

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Ranald MacDonald, a solitary venturer, entered secretive Japan in 1848, risking certain imprisonment, if t death, in the closed kingdom. Born at Astoria on the banks of the Columbia River, MacDonald (1824-94) was the son of a high-ranking Chiok woman and a Hudson's Bay Company official. He became fascinated with stories about the little-kwn Japanese while a youngster at the HBC's Ft. Vancouver and Red River schools. In 1848, 24-year-old MacDonald arranged with the captain of an American whaling ship to be cast off in a rowboat on the cold, rthern Japanese coast. Interned but escaping execution, MacDonald was sent by high-ranking Japanese officials to more populous parts of the country and ordered to teach English to Japanese translators. After nearly a year in captivity, he was released along with a small group of other American sailors stranded on the forbidden coast. In the 1850s, several of MacDonald's Japanese interpreters served in key roles when Commodore Perry of the U.S. Navy forced a t entirely unwilling Japan to open its doors to the outside world. MacDonald's wandering spirit led him throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, and eastern Canada, before returning to the Pacific Northwest in 1858, where he lived for the rest of his life, but t without further adventures. He joined a difficult exploration of Vancouver Island, and, for many years, participated in the gold excitement of Canada's Fraser and Cariboo districts.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Washington State University
ISBN-10
0874221463
ISBN-13
9780874221466
eBay Product ID (ePID)
184630887

Product Key Features

Author
Jo Ann Roe, Joann Roe
Format
Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Trade Paperback (US), Paperback / Softback
Language
English
Topic
Biography: Historical, Political & Military

Additional Product Features

Content Note
Illustrations
Date of Publication
01/01/1997
Country of Publication
United States

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