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100 1 $aRoe, JoAnn,$d1926-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81011407
245 10 $aRanald MacDonald :$bPacific Rim adventurer /$cJo Ann Roe.
260 $aPullman, Wash. :$bWashington State University Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $aviii, 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-248) and index.
520 $aRanald MacDonald, a solitary venturer, entered secretive Japan in 1848, risking certain imprisonment, if not 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 Chinook woman and a Hudson's Bay Company official. He became fascinated with stories about the little-known Japanese while a youngster at the HBC's Ft. Vancouver and Red River schools.
520 8 $aIn 1848, 24-year-old MacDonald arranged with the captain of an American whaling ship to be cast off in a rowboat on the cold, northern 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.
520 8 $aIn the 1850s, several of MacDonald's Japanese interpreters served in key roles when Commodore Perry of the U.S. Navy forced a not entirely unwilling Japan to open its doors to the outside world.
520 8 $aMacDonald'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 not 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.
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650 0 $aPioneers$zColumbia River Valley$vBiography.
650 0 $aAdventure and adventurers$zPacific Area$vBiography.
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zColumbia River Valley.
651 0 $aColumbia River Valley$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aNorthwest, Pacific$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092605
610 20 $aHudson's Bay Company.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80089976
651 0 $aJapan$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069398
650 0 $aAmericans$zJapan$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009114861
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