Description: This auction is for a hard back book - with dust jacket - illustrated -- and additional papers, some folded, one includes the signature of the author's wife: Memories of the Black Sea Germans The Odyssey of a Pioneering People HIGHLIGHTS OF THEIR HISTORY AND HERITAGE by Joseph S. Height Associated German-Russian Sponsors USA-CAN. COPYRIGHT © 1979 BY JOSEPH S. HEIGHT 372 pages CONTENTS Foreword and Acknowledgements Czarist Plans of Colonization Manifesto of Catherine the Great The Migration Routes to the Black Sea The Danube River Route of 1803 Silesian Overland Route of 1809 The Swabian Expedition The disaster of Ismail. Diaries of the Danube Journey Duc de Richelieu, Father of the Colonists Service in the Russian army. Governor of Odessa and of New Russia Early Accounts of Colonist Life The Mariental Report of 1818. Journey to Odessa in 1838. Calendar The Emigration from Alsace to Russia Ethnographic survey. Emigrant families and their villages of origan A Visit to the Colonies in 1838 Koch comes to Lustdorf. Scenes of everyday life. Colonist progress The Achievements of the Colonist The bashtan, pride of the steppe. Labor services. Colonist impact Reports and Reminiscences The Hoffnungsfelder Trek. A Mother returns from Siberia. Exodus from the Soviet Paradise. Christmas in a Labor Camp. Sorrows of a Refugee Mother. Customs and Traditions Nursery Rhymes. Engagement. Three-day wedding. Christbaum and Christkindel. Stories in the Kutschurgan Dialect Der Storich aus Deitschland. Dr verflixte Fischfang. Die Heimkehrerin. D'erscht elsassischtBredicht Poems in German and in English Songs of homeland and migration. The Massacre of Selz. Folk Humor Vignettes of Catholic Colonies in South Russia Rosental in the Crimea. Heidelberg in der Molotchna. Krasna in Bessarabia. Balmas, a Kutschurgan settlement in Bessarabia Pioneering on the Dakota Prairie The Boschee Letter from Zeeland, ND. The Speckmaier Report on Strasburg. The John Felchle Story. From the Kutschurgan to Saskatchewan Alsatian settlers near Towner, ND. Migration to Canada. History of the Revenue-Tramping Lake settlement in St. Joseph's Colony. Personal Reflections Author's self-portrait. My visit to ancestral Alsace. Testimonials of reviving interest in ancestral history. Scuffs, rubs and dents to covers and edges Light soiling. Short tears and chipping to outer edges of dust jacket Binding is good Some stray marks, notes and underlines present within Wrinkled clear tape to dust jacket, see images Book weighs 1 pound 13.4 ounces - prior to packaging Please email with any questions prior to bidding. This auction is sold as is. BUYER PAYS SHIPPING using US Postal Service. I will combine and discount shipping for multiple purchases whenever possible. ATTENTION INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding / buying.
Price: 189.08 USD
Location: Shawmut, Montana
End Time: 2025-01-14T21:10:36.000Z
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: Memories of the Black Sea Germans
Author: Joseph S. Height
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Age Level: Adults
