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White Slaves of Maquinna

John R. Jewitt's Narrative of Capture and Confinement at Nootka

By: John Jewitt

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White Slaves of Maquinna

John R. Jewitt's Narrative of Capture and Confinement at Nootka

By: John Jewitt

John R. Jewitt's story of being captured and enslaved by Maquinna, the great chief of the Mowachaht people, is both an adventure tale of survival and an unusual perspective on the First Nations of the northwest coast of Vancouver Island. On March 22, 1803, while anchored in Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Boston was attacked by a group of Mowachaht warriors. Twenty-five of her 27 crewmen were massacred, their heads "arranged in a line" for survivor John R. Jewitt to identify. Jewitt and another survivor, John Thompson, became 2 of some 50 slaves owned by the chief known as Maquinna. Among other duties, they were forced to carry wood for three miles and fight for Maquinna when he slaughtered a neighbouring tribe. But their worst fear came from knowing that slaves could be killed whenever their master chose. Since most of the Mowachaht wanted the two whites dead, they never knew what would come first—freedom or death. After Jewitt was rescued, following 28 months in captivity, he wrote a book of his experiences. It appeared in 1815 and became known as Jewitt's Narrative. It proved so popular that it is still being reprinted today.

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1927051150

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White Slaves of Maquinna

John R. Jewitt's Narrative of Capture and Confinement at Nootka

By: John Jewitt

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John R. Jewitt's Narrative of Capture and Confinement at Nootka

By: John Jewitt

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The Adventures of John Jewitt

By: John Rodgers Jewitt

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By: John Rodgers Jewitt

The Adventures of John Jewitt by John Rodgers Jewitt.

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146

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Createspace Independent Pub

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1506160905

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Beyond Pluto

Exploring the Outer Limits of the Solar System

By: John Davies

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Beyond Pluto

Exploring the Outer Limits of the Solar System

By: John Davies

In the ten years preceding publication, the known solar system more than doubled in size. For the first time in almost two centuries an entirely new population of planetary objects was found. This 'Kuiper Belt' of minor planets beyond Neptune revolutionised our understanding of the solar system's formation and finally explained the origin of the enigmatic outer planet Pluto. This is the fascinating story of how theoretical physicists decided that there must be a population of unknown bodies beyond Neptune and how a small band of astronomers set out to find them. What they discovered was a family of ancient planetesimals whose orbits and physical properties were far more complicated than anyone expected. We follow the story of this discovery, and see how astronomers, theoretical physicists and one incredibly dedicated amateur observer came together to explore the frozen boundary of the solar system.

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260

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Cambridge University Press

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1139428772

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9781139428774

The Adventures of John Jewitt, Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston

By: John Jewitt

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The Adventures of John Jewitt, Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston

By: John Jewitt

Edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Brown, Ph.D. In 1803, the American ship Boston was attacked, seized, and burned by Nootka Indians while anchored off the Pacific Northwest Coast of what is now Canada. This journal-written by one of only two survivors of the massacre, provides a fascinating insight into the author's 28 months as a slave of the Indians, one of the few white men to endure such a lengthy ordeal and live to tell the tale. Jewitt's life was spared by the Indian chief Maquina, who realized that it was useful to have an armorer slave who could repair the European weapons which had fallen into Indian hands. Slaves were the Indians' most valuable property, and each Indian tribe kept hundreds of them. Jewitt began keeping a journal, carefully recording everyday details about the Indians, their lifestyle, customs, and traditions. His descriptions provided anthropologists with a unique insight into early Amerindian society, while the story of his exploits and eventual escape make for a riveting adventure story.

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1389865983

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The Adventures Of John Jewitt

Only Survivor Of The Crew Of The Ship Boston During A Captivity Of Nearly Three Years Among The Indians Of Nootka Sound In Vancouver Island; Edited With An Introduction And Notes By Robert Brown

By: John Rodgers Jewitt

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The Adventures Of John Jewitt

Only Survivor Of The Crew Of The Ship Boston During A Captivity Of Nearly Three Years Among The Indians Of Nootka Sound In Vancouver Island; Edited With An Introduction And Notes By Robert Brown

By: John Rodgers Jewitt

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

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142

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9353427207

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Multimodality

Foundations, Research and Analysis – A Problem-Oriented Introduction

By: John Bateman,Janina Wildfeuer,Tuomo Hiippala

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Multimodality

Foundations, Research and Analysis – A Problem-Oriented Introduction

By: John Bateman,Janina Wildfeuer,Tuomo Hiippala

This textbook provides the first foundational introduction to the practice of analysing multimodality, covering the full breadth of media and situations in which multimodality needs to be a concern. Readers learn via use cases how to approach any multimodal situation and to derive their own specifically tailored sets of methods for conducting and evaluating analyses. Extensive references and critical discussion of existing approaches from many disciplines and in each of the multimodal domains addressed are provided. The authors adopt a problem-oriented perspective throughout, showing how an appropriate foundation for understanding multimodality as a phenomenon can be used to derive strong methodological guidance for analysis as well as supporting the adoption and combination of appropriate theoretical tools. Theoretical positions found in the literature are consequently always related back to the purposes of analysis rather than being promoted as valuable in their own right. By these means the book establishes the necessary theoretical foundations to engage productively with today’s increasingly complex combinations of multimodal artefacts and performances of all kinds.

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3110479893

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The Social Construction of Meaning

Reading Literature in Urban English Classrooms

By: John Yandell

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The Social Construction of Meaning

Reading Literature in Urban English Classrooms

By: John Yandell

This book takes a fresh look at secondary urban English classrooms and at what happens when students and their teachers explore literature collaboratively. By closely examining what happens in English lessons, minute by minute, it reveals how literary texts function not as a valorised heritage to be transmitted, but as a resource for the students’ work of cultural production and contestation. The reading that is undertaken in classrooms has tended to be construed as either a poor substitute or merely a preparation for other reading, particularly for that paradigmatic literacy event, the absorbed and simultaneously discriminating consumption of the literary text by the independent, private reader. This book argues for a different understanding of what constitutes reading, an understanding that is informed by historical and ethnographic perspectives and by psychological and semiotic theory. It presents the case for a conception of reading as an active, collaborative process of meaning-making and for a fully social model of learning. Drawing extensively on data gathered through classroom observation and filming of English lessons taught over the course of a year by two teachers in a London secondary school, the book explores students’ engagement with literary texts and the pedagogy that facilitates this engagement. The book offers new insights into reading, and reading literature in particular. It challenges the paradigm of reading that is offered in government policy and the assumption, common to much work within the field of ‘new literacies’, that ‘schooled literacy’ is the already-known, the default, against which the alternative literacy practices of homes and communities can be defined. It will be valuable reading for researchers, teachers, teacher educators and postgraduate students, and will have particular appeal for those with an interest in the fields of English studies and literacy.

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214

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Routledge

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1135006598

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Introduction to Comets

By: John C. Brandt,Robert D. Chapman

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Introduction to Comets

By: John C. Brandt,Robert D. Chapman

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0521004667

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Pierce's Register

Register of the Certificates Issued by John Pierce, Esquire, Paymaster General and Commissioner of Army Accounts for the United States, to Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Army Under Act of July 4, 1783

By: United States. War Department. Pay Department,John Pierce

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Pierce's Register

By: United States. War Department. Pay Department,John Pierce

Published as Senate Documents, Vol. 9, no. 988, 63rd Congress, 3rd Session.

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0806305274

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Book's by John Jewitt

White Slaves of Maquinna

White Slaves of Maquinna

White Slaves of Maquinna

White Slaves of Maquinna

The Adventures of John Jewitt

The Adventures of John Jewitt

Beyond Pluto

Beyond Pluto

The Adventures of John Jewitt, Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston

The Adventures of John Jewitt, Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston

The Adventures Of John Jewitt

The Adventures Of John Jewitt

Multimodality

Multimodality

The Social Construction of Meaning

The Social Construction of Meaning

Introduction to Comets

Introduction to Comets

Pierce's Register

Pierce's Register

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