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Ranald Macdonald

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Author : Ranald MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Portland : Oregon Historical Society Press
Release Date : 1990

Ranald Macdonald written by Ranald MacDonald and has been published by Portland : Oregon Historical Society Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

In 1848, MacDonald became the first native speaker of English to teach his language in Japan, which had been closed to the outside world for nearly two and a half centuries. Originally published posthumously in 1923, this is a reprint of the original book--Ranald's own report of his voyage, as well as his earlier and later life.

Ranald Macdonald

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Author : Ranald MacDonald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-05

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In 1848 Ranald MacDonald became the first native speaker of English to teach that language in Japan -- during a 10-month stay in that restricted nation. In this facsimile reprint of his autobiography -- a limited edition published posthumously in 1923 -- MacDonald tells of his adventurous life. Born in 1824 in Oregon, MacDonald was the son of an official in the Hudson¿s Bay Co., and a Chinook Indian. At the age of 24 he arranged to be set adrift from an American whaler, landing on the shore of Rishiri Island. Later he traveled in captivity to Nagasaki, where he tutored 14 Japanese in the English language, several of whom later served as interpreters when Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Japan in 1854 to negotiate a treaty. Illustrations.

Ranald Macdonald

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Author : Ranald MacDonald
language : en
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Release Date : 1990

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Ranald Macdonald Adventurer

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Author : Marie Leona Hobbs Nichols
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1940

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MacDonald was the son of a Scotsman and a Chinook woman. While still young, he met shipwrecked Japanese sailors and developed a fascination for Japan. In 1845 he was a sailor on the Plymouth, a whaling ship. As it neared Japan, he convinced the captain to set him off in a small boat to land as a shipwrecked sailor in Japan. He was made a prisoner and used by the Japanese to teach English. In 1849, the American warship USS Preble under Captain James Glynn rescued MacDonald and other stranded sailors. Some of his students were involved the negotiations with Commodore Matthew Perry to open Japan to foreigners. MacDonald wrote of his experiences and favorable evaluation of the Japanese to the U.S. Congress. MacDonald traveled to Australia and Europe before returning to Washington state.

Ranald Macdonald

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Author : JoAnn Roe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

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In 1848, Ranald MacDonald--son of a Hudson's Bay Company official and Chinook Indian princess--convinced the captain of an American whaling ship to cast him adrift in a rowboat off the northern Japanese coast. Held captive for nearly a year, MacDonald taught English to Japanese interpreters, some of whom interpreted for Commodore Perry when the U.S. Navy forced Japan to open its doors to outsiders in the 1850s. After his release, MacDonald traveled the world before returning to the Pacific Northwest to join the British Columbia gold rush.

Native American In The Land Of The Shogun

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Author : Frederik L. Schodt
language : en
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
Release Date : 2013-06-15

Native American In The Land Of The Shogun written by Frederik L. Schodt and has been published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

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. In 2009 he was received the The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette for his contribution to the introduction and promotion of Japanese contemporary popular culture. "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

Ranald Macdonald

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Author : JoAnn Roe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

Ranald Macdonald written by JoAnn Roe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

In 1848, Ranald MacDonald--son of a Hudson's Bay Company official and Chinook Indian princess--convinced the captain of an American whaling ship to cast him adrift in a rowboat off the northern Japanese coast. Held captive for nearly a year, MacDonald taught English to Japanese interpreters, some of whom interpreted for Commodore Perry when the U.S. Navy forced Japan to open its doors to outsiders in the 1850s. After his release, MacDonald traveled the world before returning to the Pacific Northwest to join the British Columbia gold rush.

Ranald Macdonald

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Author : Ranald MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : Pub. for the Eastern Washington state historical society by the Inland-American printing Company
Release Date : 1923

Ranald Macdonald written by Ranald MacDonald and has been published by Spokane, Wash. : Pub. for the Eastern Washington state historical society by the Inland-American printing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1923 with Americans categories.

The Macdonalds Of Clanranald

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Author : Alexander Mackenzie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881

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Ranald Macdonald Papers

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Author : Ranald MacDonald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1850

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Collection includes photocopies from MacDonald's manuscript "Japan. Story of adventure of Ranald McDonald, first teacher of English in Japan / A.D. 1848-9. The gates, of brass, were opened. By Ranald Macdonald (with brief sketch of his life.)," n.d.; photostat copy of letter from MacDonald to Malcolm MacLeod, 1891 Feb. 25, remarking about correspondence with Col. T.M. Anderson concerning historical events, including Marcus Whitman's "winter ride," doubting that Whitman ever went to Washington; and two additional autobiographical chapters by MacDonald.