Hannah Breece was a middle-aged schoolteacher when she set off for an assignment in the wilds of Alaska in the early days of the twentieth century. She camped with Indians, held a hundred wild dogs at bay by herself, and traveled in a kayak wearing bear intestines! Decades later, long after Breece died, her memoir was edited and published by her grand-niece. It's a wild and woolly adventure that anyone—middle-aged schoolteacher or not—will enjoy! (EE)