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- Title
Behind the Bamboo Curtain: A Nineteenth-Century Canadian Adventurer in Japan.
- Authors
Cooper, David N.
- Abstract
A biography of Canadian teacher and adventurer Ranald MacDonald is presented. He was born at Fort Astoria, North America, in 1824 He was educated at Fort Vancouver in Canada and the Academy at Red River in western Canada and graduated in 1839. He worked as a crew member for the U.S. whaling ship the "Plymouth," which sailed to Japan. He was the first native English speaker to teach English in Japan and taught a group of interpreters. He left Japan on April 27, 1849. He died in 1894.
- Subjects
MACDONALD, Ranald, 1824-1894; ENGLISH teachers; TRANSLATORS; TEACHERS; 19TH century Japanese history; HISTORY
- Publication
Manitoba History, 2014, Issue 74, p40
- ISSN
0226-5044
- Publication type
Article