Higher Finance: How to Live Debt Free

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Higher Finance: How to Live Debt Free.......2003-08-29

I really enjoyed reading this book. I have always enjoyed Dr. Price's teaching of the Word. He has always been direct and truthful in regards to delivering the Word of God. He is honest in this approach to living dept free and once again the Word of God is the foundation for this approach. He adds personal experiences that are easily relatable for everyone, because at some point in our lives we have all experienced a financial setback. The book is easy reading, but engaging to the reader to develop the proper habits and mindset to remain debt free. This book is a great encourager to all struggling with debt.

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This updated workbook is useful for testing and improving vocabulary for those working in the hospitality industry. It includes self-study exercises and practical speaking activities and is suitable for group use or self-study. Word games, crosswords group games, and pair work are used to increase the proficiency and comfort level of the student. It includes notes and full answers to exercises in the back.

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Gentle Annie: The True Story of a Civil War Nurse
Mary Francis Shura
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Blue.......2006-12-13

I liked the book because of the intensity of the setting with the bloody and brutal battles. They explain how bad the wounds were on the soldiers so well that I could almost see them in my mind when I read. When she was just seventeen she was as a nurse. She was ready to serve her country. Annie is very interested in history and what is happening around the world. She was a strong, independent girl that wanted to be treated like a soldier and be in the front lines of the war. I would rate this book from a scale 1 - 10 an 8 because it leaves us hanging at the end a little. I suggest this book to 4th - 6th graders that like the Civil War.

Monkey Brain's Review.......2006-11-21

I think that the book Gentle Annie is a very good book! I like how the author explains Annie's character. I also thought that the news about Frank was very shocking! I did think the author left us hanging at the end. I like how the book is historical fiction, but it is based on a girl named Anna B. Etheridge. I think this book on a 1 to 10 scale would be an 8. There are more settings in this book, but the main setting is in Alexandria, Virginia. Annie reminds me of Clara Barton because she was a civil war nurse for the union, and so is Annie. I think this book is good for people who love reading about the Civil War. I also think that this book is good for teachers. If teachers want an interesting book to share with their class this is the right book. This book might be a little hard for some students. I like this book for 2 reasons. First, I love reading! Second, I am very interested in civil war books. When Annie was with the troops she was happy. She always marched in the front line with the soldiers. When a soldier was wounded or died she always cried. I wonder if there are anymore biographies about Anna B. Etheridge. I would really like to read more about her!
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J.S.'S Review.......2006-11-21

I think gentle Annie is a very good book. On a scale from 1-10 I would give it a 9, because it is a very good book it has a good beginning, a good middle, but it kind of leaves you hanging at the end. The genre is historical fiction, but it's based on a real person named Anna Blair Etheridge. The setting is Detroit Michigan, but then Annie was told she was moving to Milwaukee Wisconsin with her dad. When she was 16 she moved back to Detroit Michigan to join the Michigan army. When she gets there she goes through boot camp and trains to be a nurse for the Union Army. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading historical fiction stories, someone who enjoys reading stories about the past, and anyone who enjoys reading as much as I do!

Awsome book review by Victoria Chapman.......2005-10-20

I gave the book Gentle Annie four stars. I gave it a four because it was a wonderful and delightful book to read. It was a great book to read if you a person that likes books that make you feel happy, sad, and depressed all in a 184 page book. I defintly think that if your that sort of person then you will love the book Gentle Annie. I believe that it was a good way for me to learn about the Civil War.
In this book you are led through the time line of the Civil War by a genle and loving nurse named Annie Etheridge. Annie makes friend and loses friends. She has happy moments and sad moments.
I am in fifth grade and I loved this book. But I think that this would be good for all ages. Besides, what is wrong with being 100 and having some good historical fiction to read. I gave the book Gentle Annie a pretty good rating. It is even in my top 20 favorite books. So I think that you will really enjoy the book Gentle Annie.

Kennedy's Opinions!.......2005-10-20

Someone should read this book because it is exciting and a fun adventure. Someone should not read this book if they don't like adventures and excitement in a story.This book was a pretty good book that is why I rated it a 4.It was not an awesome book because it got boring and I wanted to put it down at times, but I did not because I was determined to get done and finish the book so I kept on reading. If you are a reader who likes action and people who die then you should read this book. My favorite part was when Annie went in to battle being brave. My favorite character was Annie because she was so brave and determined.

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Gentle Annie: The True Story of a Civil War Nurse
Mary Francis Shura
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GENTLE ANNIE: THE TRUE STORY OF A CIVIL WAR NURSE

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Over-focussed on Atwood's poetry.......2004-01-10

Despite the author's tedious insistence that this is a "not biography" (when it obviously is a biography), the first half of this book is quite wonderful: a chance to meet the child who grew into the brilliant, steely writer, including some lovely, hilarious anecdotes that shed considerable light on her work.

But, as the book proceeds, it becomes increasingly focussed on Atwood's poetry--page after page is devoted to excerpts and analysis--while her much more widely read novels, the primary reason she is of international interest, are covered with bizarre brevity. Though admittedly not Atwood's finest work, "Lady Oracle," her first major bestseller and a book with obvious autobiographical significance, gets 3/4 of a page. Even Surfacing, a strenuously profound novel and surely worthy of eggheady analysis, gets short shrift.

This imbalance undermines the book's value, and while The Red Shoes is a must for any serious Atwood fan, prepare to be frustrated.

Trivial factual errors raise suspicion of substance.......2003-09-25

Moreover, the text is replete with relatively trivial factual errors which after a time become disturbing, for they raise the suspicion that Ms Sullivan is not to be trusted as to matters of real significance. In particular one notes that the lapses mostly have to do with matters of common knowledge to the ordinarily literate Canadian: what knowledge of Canadian circumstances, then, does Ms Sullivan bring to the task, and given the preoccupations of her subject Margaret Atwood, was Ms Sullivan the most appropriate author to undertake it?
And given that she did undertake it, surely more knowledgeable editors can be found in the Canadian publishing industry who could catch such lapses as these examples (pagination referring to the HarperCollins paperback edition of 1998):

Page 89 "[Northrop Frye]" had the look of the lay United Church preacher he moonlighted as on weekends." But it is well known that Frye was not a "lay preacher" but an ordained clergyman in the old, though unusual in Canada, tradition of clerical dons. Given that Ms Sullivan is a professor of English at the same university as Frye this lapse is especially puzzling.
Page 177 "Ordinary women were boring, shackled in domestic virtue as the 'Angel in the House.' (Margaret had picked up Virginia Woolf's phrase long before it gained common currency.")" But it is not Virginia Woolf's phrase; it is Coventry Patmore's, though Virginia Woolf was possibly the first to identify the virtue in the Victorian poem as suspect.
Page 183-4 "Directly across the street was a brick wall....This would become the wall where the executions occurred in The Handmaid's Tale." Well, we've already been told this; one would have thought that either one of the statements of this fact should have been deleted or that some acknowledgement of the repetition ("as has been noted," say) have been made so as to allay the reader's feeling that (to be kind) Ms Sullivan's proofreaders were lying down on the job.
Page 182 "Its steps were flanked by white pseudo-Corinthian columns,...." This seems an odd qualification: surely either they were Corinthian columns or they were not: the suggestion of faded ersatz elegance is not bolstered by the word "pseudo" and Corinthian columns are not only to be found on actual classical ruins.
Page 188 "Mr Atwood was floored by the ceremony...." - but elsewhere in the text Margaret Atwood's father is referred to as "Dr Atwood," and the inconsistency, while hardly a major flaw, is mildly irritating and adds to one's impression of general sloppiness of execution.
Page 204 "[John Glassco] had not yet published his famous fictional autobiography, Memoirs of Montparnasse." Well, was it fictional? There was nothing in the reviews at the time of its publication to indicate that it was fabricated; if subsequent literary discussion has revealed otherwise then surely Ms Sullivan should have provided at least a footnote to this effect.
Page 234 "Charlie had gotten a job teaching at the University of Calgary the previous fall," ie, presumably, in 1968, when there was no University of Calgary, but rather a University of Alberta, Calgary campus.
Page 242 Margaret Laurence, from Manitoba, and Jim Polk, Atwood's first husband, "could talk about the small Midwestern towns they had come from" -- but he was from Montana and that is most certainly not the "Midwest," at least not in US terminology, though arguably Manitoba is.
Page 212 "The FLQ ...[i]n 1963 had placed their first bombs in mail boxes and public buildings." Well no, the FLQ did not exist in 1963; it was the RIN.
Page 274 The people of Mulmur Township "still spoke in an Irish/English idiom that had survived from the nineteenth century....When they referred to slightly demented people they used the expression 'two bricks short of a load""-as though this cliché were not well known outside rustic Ontario, and indeed common throughout the English-speaking world, though possibly not so well known among University of Toronto academics.

Factual errors raise suspicion.......2003-09-20

This biography is wholly interesting, particularly in its account of the early days of the Anansi Press and the activities of such people as Dennis Lee, Michael Ondaatje, Graeme Gibson and Margaret Atwood herself in creating a new hospitable environment for Canadian writing. But its lapses are considerable and it betrays the signs of haste and of deficient editing. The "red shoes" conceit - an extensively belaboured allusion to the 1940s Moira Shearer movie about a ballerina who discovers that in that era it was not possible to be both an artist and a wife- might have been marginally insightful as a passing reference. But as the title of the book and as a recurrent image it is particularly irritating after a time in its inappropriateness to Margaret Atwood's life. The biography itself (albeit that Ms Sullivan protests that it is a "not biography") extensively demonstrates what Atwood herself has frequently noted: that the knowledge of the Northern bush which frequently enters her fiction, the practicality and down-to-earth matter-of-factness of both her prose and the persona she presents in interviews and public appearances are grounded in a childhood wholly different from conventional 1940s little-girldom.
Moreover, the text is replete with relatively trivial factual errors which after a time, however, become disturbing, for they raise the suspicion that Ms Sullivan is not to be trusted as to matters of real significance. In particular one notes that the lapses mostly have to do with matters of common knowledge to the ordinarily literate Canadian: what knowledge of Canadian circumstances, then, does Ms Sullivan bring to the task, and given the preoccupations of her subject Margaret Atwood, was Ms Sullivan the most appropriate author to undertake it?
Surely more knowledgeable editors can be found in the Canadian publishing industry who could catch such lapses as these examples (pagination referring to the HarperCollins paperback edition of 1998):

Page 89 "[Northrop Frye]" had the look of the lay United Church preacher he moonlighted as on weekends." But it is well known that Frye was not a "lay preacher" but an ordained clergyman in the old, though unusual in Canada, tradition of clerical dons. As a professor of English at the same university as Frye this lapse on Ms Sullivan's part is especially puzzling.
Page 177 "Ordinary women were boring, shackled in domestic virtue as the `Angel in the House.' (Margaret had picked up Virginia Woolf's phrase long before it gained common currency.")" But it is not Virginia Woolf's phrase; it is Coventry Patmore's, though Virginia Woolf was possibly the first to identify the virtue in the Victorian poem as suspect.
Page 183-4 "Directly across the street was a brick wall....This would become the wall where the executions occurred in The Handmaid's Tale." Well, we've already been told this; one would have thought that either one of the statements of this fact should have been deleted or that some acknowledgement of the repetition ("as has been noted," say) have been made so as to allay the reader's feeling that (to be kind) Ms Sullivan's proofreaders were lying down on the job.
Page 182 "Its steps were flanked by white pseudo-Corinthian columns,...." This seems an odd qualification: surely either they were Corinthian columns or they were not: the suggestion of faded ersatz elegance is not bolstered by the word "pseudo" and Corinthian columns are not only to be found on actual classical ruins.
Page 188 "Mr Atwood was floored by the ceremony...." - but elsewhere in the text Margaret Atwood's father is referred to as "Dr Atwood," and the inconsistency, while hardly a major flaw, is mildly irritating and adds to one's impression of general sloppiness of execution.
Page 204 "[John Glassco] had not yet published his famous fictional autobiography, Memoirs of Montparnasse." Well, was it fictional? There was nothing in the reviews at the time of its publication to indicate that it was fabricated; if subsequent literary discussion has revealed otherwise then surely Ms Sullivan should have provided at least a footnote to this effect.
Page 234 "Charlie had gotten a job teaching at the University of Calgary the previous fall," ie, presumably, in 1968, when there was no University of Calgary, but rather a University of Alberta, Calgary campus.
Page 242 Margaret Laurence, from Manitoba, and Jim Polk, Atwood's first husband, "could talk about the small Midwestern towns they had come from"-but he was from Montana and that is most certainly not the "Midwest," at least not in US terminology, though arguably Manitoba is.
Page 212 "The FLQ ...[i]n 1963 had placed their first bombs in mail boxes and public buildings." Well no, the FLQ did not exist in 1963; it was the RIN.
Page 274 The people of Mulmur Township "still spoke in an Irish/English idiom that had survived from the nineteenth century....When they referred to slightly demented people they used the expression `two bricks short of a load""-as though this cliché were not well known outside rustic Ontario, and indeed common throughout the English-speaking world, though possibly not so well known among University of Toronto academics.

Factual errors raise suspicion of unreliability.......2003-09-20

This biography is wholly interesting, particularly in its account of the early days of the Anansi Press and the activities of such people as Dennis Lee, Michael Ondaatje, Graeme Gibson and Margaret Atwood herself in creating a new hospitable environment for Canadian writing. But its lapses are considerable and it betrays the signs of haste and of deficient editing. The "red shoes" conceit - an extensively belaboured allusion to the 1940s Moira Shearer movie about a ballerina who discovers that in that era it was not possible to be both an artist and a wife -- might have been marginally insightful as a passing reference. But as the title of the book and as a recurrent image it is after a time irritating in its inappropriateness to Margaret Atwood's life. The biography itself (albeit that Ms Sullivan protests that it is a "not biography") extensively demonstrates what Atwood herself has frequently noted: that the knowledge of the Northern bush which frequently enters her fiction, the practicality and down-to-earth matter-of-factness of both her prose and the persona she presents in interviews and public appearances are grounded in a childhood wholly different from conventional 1940s little-girldom.
Moreover, the text is replete with relatively trivial factual errors which after a time become disturbing, for they raise the suspicion that Ms Sullivan is not to be trusted as to matters of real significance. In particular one notes that the lapses mostly have to do with matters of common knowledge to the ordinarily literate Canadian: what knowledge of Canadian circumstances, then, does Ms Sullivan bring to the task, and given the preoccupations of her subject Margaret Atwood, was Ms Sullivan the most appropriate author to undertake it?
And given that she did undertake it, surely more knowledgeable editors can be found in the Canadian publishing industry who could catch such lapses as these examples (pagination referring to the HarperCollins paperback edition of 1998):

Delightful analysis of the life and times of a young Atwood.......1999-04-25

This intriguing book tells about the early life of Margaret Atwood in great detail, and then skims through the last couple of decades. Rosemary Sullivan has done a remarkable job of recreating the '40's, '50's, '60's and '70's, and how they influenced (and eventually were influenced by!) Canada's #1 writer. Having interviewed Atwood, many of her friends and associates, ex-husband and present husband, and also using contemporary correspondence, Sullivan seems to have an authentic understanding of how Atwood developed into such an amazing, prolific writer. Always respectful, Sullivan keeps her focus on what in Atwood's life is relevant to her as a writer. This is a very intelligently written biography, with an incredible amount of research and very astute analyses, and should be a satisfying read for any fan of Margaret Atwood's, without feeling like you have invaded her privacy.

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Buying a House in Spain provides everything one needs to know to buy a house in Spain whether for use as a vacation home, a base while starting a new working life, an investment or as somewhere to spend retirement.

Anyone considering buying in Spain needs to understand the Spanish process of housebuying so this book is essential reading for anyone considering buying there; it tells readers all they need to know including:
>How to raise finance and transfer currency
>Finding and dealing with estate agents and other professionals
>What inspections and surveys are necessary or advisable
>Conveyancing and exchanging contracts
>Arranging removals and taking pets
>How to get power, water, and other services connected

To help readers find their ideal home the book covers the entire country from Galicia to Murcia, not just regions such as the Costa del Sol already popular with expatriate buyers, with a regional guide explaining the characters of the different areas and the types and price of property to be found there. Special features include:
>Full coverage of the up-and-coming areas
>Comparative tables of prices to show where to find the best value for money.
>Information on the regions' geography, climate, and cuisine

The book also gives essential information for when the purchase is complete from how to deal with builders and other craftsmen when restoring or renovating to making money from the house by renting it out. Also provided is essential background information covering the history, culture and economy of Spain, its climate, visa, permit and residence regulations, the health care, banking and education systems, and more.

Buying a House in Morocco (Buying a House - Vacation Work Pub)

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Abby Aron
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A growing number of people are interested in buying property in Morocco with its ancient towns, coastal resorts and snowy peaks. This North African kingdom boasts 1,400 miles of coastline, year-round sunshine and an open invitation to foreign investment and has seen a sharp increase in the numbers of house-buyers from abroad over the last four years.

Buying a House in Morocco is aimed at anyone seriously considering purchasing a property in Morocco to live in permanently, rent out, or transform to a guesthouse. Extensively researched and informatively written, it will give readers a rich insight into what to expect and how to go about fulfilling their dream for a new home.

Morocco offers an enormous range of housing, from the traditional dars and riads of the medina to the villas, new developments and old Moroccan style farmhouses of the countryside. The regional guide also covers the different types of properties to be found in each region, such as:

>Swiss-style chalets in Ilfrane
>The riads (grand courtyard homes) in Marrakesh
>Elaborate Andalusian villas in Tangier
>Kasbahs in the Draa Valley

In line with the Moroccan government's aim to quadruple tourism to ten million visitors a year by 2010 the appeal to potential home buyers will keep increasing. Approximately $5 billion is being invested in six luxurious coastal resorts including golf courses and luxury villas and on improving the country's infrastructure and accessibility. This spells good news for the letting market, for guesthouse owners and for those who are purchasing homes as an investment.

Buying a House in Portugal (Buying a House - Vacation Work Pub)

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Dan Boothby
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A complete guide to buying property in Portugal, including choosing the most suitable area to buy in and how to tackle Portuguese house purchase procedures.

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Complete Guide Buying Property in Spain
Charles Davey
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* From the author of the best-selling "Complete Guide to Buying Property in France.""Deals with all the issues." -- The Observer

Buying a Home in Portugal (Buying a Home)

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Quite good to get you started
It's better than nothing . . .

Buying a Home in Portugal (Buying a Home)
David Hambshire
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Quite good to get you started.......2004-03-03

This was my first guide before I bought a little place in the Algarve. It gave me the essentials and got me started. Then of course you will need a local solicitor, and some are quite fluent in English. This book does not do every thing for you but is very useful.

It's better than nothing . . ........2000-05-25

My wife is a Portuguese citizen and although we are currently living in the USA we've made plans to purchase a second home in her native country. This book is good for a basic introduction to the idea of purchasing a home in Portugal, but it really only skims the surface. The main chapters in the book are well laid out, but the narrative seems to lack a continuous flow at times and doesn't do a good job of summarizing key points or explaining the fine details. What the book does best is at least make the reader aware of the many considerations and complex issues (different taxes, different possible ways to arrange for a mortage, etc.) that need to be examined before making a purchase. However, the book doesn't provide enough information on any of these issues for the reader to make any judgements about his own situation. I guess I was hoping the book would be more along the lines of the humbly-entitled but very helpful "Idiots Guide" or "Dummies" series. This book is definitely not along the sames lines as those books. Good news if you're proud of the fact that you're not an idiot, but when it comes to buying a home in Portugal I'll be the first to admit that I AM and idiot, and would like to have things explained to me thus! I also think that my admittedly "American" expectation was that the book would be comparing purchasing a home in Portugal with purchasing a home in the USA. In all fairness to the author, that's not what was stated. The book doesn't directly compare purchasing a home in Portugal to purchasing a home anywhere else, which makes the task of explaining the business of buying a home in Portugal very difficult indeed - the author doesn't share a common frame of reference with the reader. (Though one can definitely tell that the author is from the United Kingdom). Because of the dearth of information available, I am still glad I bought it and can recommend that anyone thinking of making this move read this book. However, I'll still be relying on my wife's in-depth knowledge of Portugal when we do purchase our home there. Best of luck to you!

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A little to Brit-centric
Essential for anyone planning to move to Spain.

Buying a Home in Spain (Buying a Home)
David Hampshire
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Outdated Book.......2003-02-07

This book is very outdated. The housing market had drastically changed in Spain since this book was written. Even the amounts in the book are in pesetas and not in Euros.
I can not agree with the description of the Spaniards in the book, either. I have traveled to Spain many times and I think people and the whole country is much different than it is described in the book. There is too much negativity in this book. This book is written mainly for Brits. Once you finish the book you may want to say Long Live the Queen!

A little to Brit-centric.......2002-03-25

It was a very helpful book, but I found it a bit too Anglophilic.
As an American the book is lacking.

Essential for anyone planning to move to Spain........2001-05-10

Buying a Home in Spain by David Hampshire not only gives a variety of factual information about Spain, it reads like a novel. The book is up to date and discusses all aspects of day to day life in Spain. No matter if you are interested in the legal system, business, social life or want to know about the different areas, this book has it all. I appreciate the book most because it is written in a way that it will inform you no matter where you currently live. If you want to read just one book about living in Spain; this one excellent.

Buying a House in Spain (Buying a House - Vacation Work Pub)

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Buying a House in Spain (Buying a House - Vacation Work Pub)
Dan Boothby
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ASIN: 1854582992

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A complete guide to buying property in Spain, including where to find the perfect house and how to buy it.

Earning Money From Your Spanish Home (Earning Money)

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Joanna Styles
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ASIN: 1901130983

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An important new book for anyone owning a holiday home in Spain or planning to buy home there. It contains comprehensive information about short-and long-term rentals, including bed & breakfast, holiday apartments, buy-to-let (investment), leaseback and other property-related businesses.

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Buying a House in Spain

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Preferencies dels compradors d'habitatges a Catalunya

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Preferencies dels compradors d'habitatges a Catalunya

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ASIN: 8439328060

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How Japan, after 250 years of self--imposed isolation, began the process of modernization is in part the story of Ranald MacDonald. In 1848 this half-Scot, half-Chinook adventurer from the Pacific Northwest landed on an island off Hokkaido. Although promptly arrested and imprisoned for seven months in Nagasaki, the intelligent, well-educated MacDonald fascinated the Japanese and became one of their first teachers of English and Western ways. Based on primary research in Japan and North America, this book chronicles the events leading to MacDonald's journey and his later struggle to obtain recognition at home.

Frederik L. Schodt has written extensively on Japan, including America and the Four Japans and Inside the -Robot Kingdom. Fluent in spoken and written Japanese, he lives in San Francisco.

"Schodt's account of MacDonald's life and his eventual journey to Japan is depicted with the accuracy of a trained academic and the excitement of a skillful novelist." -- Kyoto Journal

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Ranald MacDonald adventures.......2006-09-13

Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (08/06)

In 1848, at the age of twenty-four, MacDonald risked his life to follow a dream. MacDonald purposefully shipwrecked off the cost of feudal Japan. The country had rigid policies prohibiting contact with foreigners. How he envisioned and accomplished this adventure and the significance to us today is the premise of this book. Frederik L. Schodt has compiled and written this definitive biography of Ranald MacDonald in an effort to sort out "myth and speculation from fact."

Schodt provides insight into the background of Japan's seclusion laws of the mid 19th century which includes the impact Ranald MacDonald made while being detained in Japan. Serving as an interpreter and teaching English to Japanese leaders played a part in the opening of Japanese-American relations, and intercultural communications.

Ranald's mother a Chinook princess died shortly after his birth in February 1824. Ranald had Chinook Indian and Scottish origins. The author describes Ranald as being, "...a man of superior intelligence, possessing a phenomenal memory and an absolutely fearless spirit...he genuinely enjoyed people...displays a wonderful sense of humor...and had a rare ability to attract people from broad walks of life."

Frederic L. Schodt has been meticulous in his background research. This has been a complex undertaking as earlier writings have often been incomplete and conflicting. Excerpts from correspondence between Archibald MacDonald and his peer's trace the early years and progress of Ranald's education. "Like many sons, Ranald MacDonald did not turn out the way his father anticipated. He was determined to follow his own dreams, in his own way."

Word pictures and photos help the reader visualize the picturesque setting for this important narrative on the explorations and settlement of the Pacific Northwest, the whaling industry, and 19th Century Japan. Schodt introduces the importance of Hawaii's position as a trade link, and includes the vital insight into British, Dutch, and Russian attempts at breaking Japan's isolation policies. Drawing from Ranald's own published autobiography, newspaper articles, historical archives, and earlier biographical renderings - Schodt has constructed this masterful volume.

Of particular interest to me was the account of MacDonald's experience in teaching English and learning Japanese during his time in Nagasaki. The fruit of this ability and opportunity later served Japan well in negotiating with English-speaking visitors including Commodore Perry in 1853. "The Perry expedition eventually resulted in commercial treaty between Japan and the United States, and became the catalyst for the collapse of the Shogunate ...and the eventual transformation of Japan from a feudal to a modern state."

Schodt has written extensively on Japanese culture and U. S./Japan relations. This account incorporates Japanese history with biographical material on Ranald MacDonald.

Schodt's work is a major contribution to the accurate reporting of the life and history of a "Native American in the Land of the Shogun."

Wow. Just...Wow........2006-08-04

Every now and then you pick up a book and think "Hmmm...that looks interesting." And then your world explodes.

"Native American in the Land of the Shogun" is just such a book. At first glance, it appears to be a quirky story of a stranger in a strange land, something along the lines of Lafcadio Hearn or Donald Richie, foreigners who made their home in a country notoriously shy of foreigners. But Ranald MacDonald's story is much more interesting, full of adventure and daring do that would hardly be believable if found in a fiction novel.

At that time Japan was a mysterious land, due to the sakoku laws which stated that foreigners could not enter Japan under penalty of death. Spurred by curiosity and a love of adventure, as well as his belief that his own Native American ancestors had evolved from shipwrecked Japanese sailors who drifted to the North American continent, Ranald MacDonald conceived a wild plan of purposely scuttling his boat off the shores of Hokkaido so he could appear as a shipwreck victim and hopefully be rescued instead of sentenced. Once there, he counted on his semi-Asiatic appearance and easy-going nature to protect him and hopefully convince the Japanese of his value as an English interpreter and teacher. Imprisoned in Nagasaki, he taught English for seven months, and his students, the only English speakers in all of Japan, were able to translate for Commodore Matthew Perry when he came to force open the closed doors of Japan. How differently things would have played out if Ranald MacDonald had been unsuccessful in his mad scheme!

Amazing as it seems, Ranald MacDonald has faded from the eye of history, never receiving credit for his lynchpin role in history. In this book, Frederik L. Schodt seeks to pluck this incredible man from obscurity and let his story be told in full. "Native American in the Land of the Shogun" is a dense history book, setting the stage for MacDonald with a detailed study of the Hudson's Bay Company role in the Oregon Territories, or which MacDonald's father was Chief Factor. From there, he traces MacDonald's boyhood, education, disappointments and the discrimination he faced as an half-Chinook. The road to Japan is laid clear, going from New York, to Hawaii, to the Sea of Japan on a whaling ship, as well as his eventual return home and statement before Congress on the nature of Japan and the Japanese people.

Richly detailed and captivating written, after reading "Native American in the Land of the Shogun" and hearing the story of Ranald MacDonald one wants to become an apostle, retelling his story to everyone willing to listen. This is definitely a book that I will be recommending from now on to anyone with an interest in Japan, or anyone who likes to read about fascinating characters that changed the world in a very small but important way, just because they wanted to.

An amazing tale.......2005-04-10

In 1848 a 24-year-old young man left an American whaling ship off the coast of Hokkaido. In a tiny boat he made his way alone to a Japan that had been closed off to the outside world for over two hundred years. The man was Ranald MacDonald, a half-Chinook, half-Scot who was following his dream of entering Japan to become an interpreter and English teacher.
The first third of Schodt's definitive biography of this true-life adventurer covers Ranald's childhood and youth growing up on the coast of the Pacific Northwest, where he first heard the stories of the "three Kichis", 3 Japanese who had landed on the Pacific coast of North America a few years before. As part of the Japanese government's policy of seclusion, it was illegal to build vessels capable of ocean voyages, consequently many boats encountered storms and drifted out to sea, unable to navigate back to port. Numerous boats drifted for months, and the lucky ones were picked up, usually by whaling ships, and dropped off at Hawaii or the west coast of America.
To fulfill his dream, Ranald became a whaler, because at the time it was the whaling fleets that were having increasing contact with the mysterious closed-off Japan. After finally arriving off the coast of Hokkaido, MacDonald was promptly arrested and held for a while before being taken to Nagasaki to await deportation. While imprisoned in Nagasaki he befriended his jailers and interrogators, and secretly kept notes on the Japanese language and customs which later proved useful to the Americans negotiating with Japan after Perry's famous "Black Ships" encounter in the 1850s. His main interrogator also became the Japanese govenment's chief translator for Perry's mission.
A fascinating look at a little-known personality and adventurer who as an individual helped in the opening of Japan, the author has thoroughly researched the story both in Japan and the U.S., and the book is useful for the details and glimpses it provides of Japan in a time of change.

another world.......2003-12-11

Schodt masterfully recreates a time when the west was truly wild, with a group of bizarre characters and a truly unbelieveable protagonist. It is all the more amazing, then, that this is a true story. As in his other books, Schodt has so many interesting asides that even his footnotes read like adventure novels -- I hope he returns one day to write the full story of the Japanese radio operator-girls who committed suicide when the Russians attacked. But back in the world of the 19th century, this story of the Amerindian-Scot who learned Japanese and was one of the first westerners to see the closed land of Japan is truly fascinating. The ideal gift for anyone who thinks they know all about the way the West was won, or indeed, the East.

A gripping history with larger-than-life characters.......2003-09-22

Schodt has accomplished two things with one book. He has told the tale of a fascinating individual and his adventures in the Orient and elsewhere. And he has also brought to life a unique period in North American history that few of us learn about in school. Although the exploits of McDonald alone make for a great story, what interested me most was the vast historical and geographic tableau the author ambitiously depicts -- one that sprawls over decades and continents and is populated by such colorful characters as John McLoughlin, the virtual emperor of the Pacific Northwest, and James Dickson, the self-styled general of the "Indian Liberating Army," to name just two. The book's portrayal of the Metis culture of the U.S. and Canada in the early 19th century is a compelling story in itself. Coupled with McDonald's remarkable adventures in a Japan that was on the cusp of opening to the West, this makes for a gripping epic. Schodt has done a thorough and eloquent job of bringing it to life. "Native American in the Land of the Shogun" should entertain any history buff as well as satisfy the most discriminating scholar.

Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan.(Book Review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History

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Title: Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan.(Book Review)
Author: Jeffrey A. Dym
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2004
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 39 Issue: 2 Page: 446(3)

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