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What happened to John R. Jewitt after his shipwreck off Canada’s west coast?
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Canadian writer Alice Munro was lauded as a “master of the contemporary short story” by the Swedish Academy when it awarded her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013.
After being shipwrecked off Canada’s west coast, John R. Jewitt was held as a prisoner of the Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) chief Maquinna. His experiences during this time are documented in his captivity narrative, A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt (1815), which is noted for providing a sympathetic ethnography of the Nuu-chah-nulth people.1