Memoirs Of A Yukon Priest

by Segundo Llorente

Overview

This is an engagingly personal account of the hardships, challenges, and rewards of a life lived wholly in the presence of God and at the service of the Alaskan people. In September 1935, Segundo Llorente, a wide-eyed twenty-eight-year-old Jesuit priest from Spain set foot in Alaska for the the first time. His memoirs are filled with all that he saw, endured, and enjoyed for forty years in Uncle Sam's "icebox," whether by dogsled in the 1930s or by plane and snowmobile in the 1970s. He prayed, worked, scolded, helped, and laughed with a practical wisdom that recalls the Ignatian spirituality in everyday life that also marks Father Walter Cisek's Russian journal, He Leadeth Me.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878403615
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
Publication date:	12/01/1990
Pages:	252
Sales rank:	991,999
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.57(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xiii
1	The Beginning	1
2	The Inside Passage	6
3	The Alaska Railroad	13
4	The Yukon River	21
5	Traveling Down River	30
6	Welcome to the Akulurak Mission	37
7	Akulurak Stories	47
8	Crossing the Line: Kotzebue	59
9	Kotzebue and Beyond	70
10	Bury Me Next to Fr. Jette	82
11	The Winter Trail	91
12	Quiet Nunakhock	108
13	Summer in Akulurak	117
14	Bethel and Beyond	121
15	Holy Cross and McGrath	133
16	Starting Over	147
17	Alakanuk	160
18	Emmonak	168
19	Eskimo Life and Lore	177
20	Kwiguk and Saint Marys	193
21	The Alaska State Legislature	201
22	Nome	211
	Epilogue: More Missionaries	224

Editorial Reviews

In September of 1935, Llorente, a 28 year old Jesuit priest from Spain, set foot in Alaska for the first time. This is his picturesque, personal account of the next forty years--of the hardships, challenges, and rewards of his life lived in the service of God and the Eskimos. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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