Hahndorf Sketchbook by Anni Luur Fox and Lena L. Wade (1st Edn.)

Hahndorf Sketchbook

Drawings by Anni Luur Fox

Text by Lena L. Wade

Rigby, 1976, [First Edition], ISBN 0727000829, black and white illustrations throughout, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners gift inscription on half title page, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little chipping and small tears, a few insect holes in spine, minor discolouration to jacket (see photographs)

“Hahndorf was settled in 1839 by fifty-two Lutheran families who had fled the persecution of their church by Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia.  The town was named in honour of Captain D. M. Hahn, who commanded the ship Zebra in which many of these pioneers travelled from Europe, and who chose the site of an arranged terms of payment for the new settlement.  The settlers came from the land which gave the world the stories of “Cinderella”, “Hansel and Gretel,” and “The Three Bears,” which probably accounts for the fact that one anxious arrival brought with him a bear trap.  Their early cottages often looked like illustrations from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, and the men worked hard at their traditional occupations of wood cuttings, tanning, farming, and milling.  Life was not all hard work, however.”

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