FALKENHORST, C. (= STANISLAUS JEZEWSKI, 1852-1913),
Kruis en Halve Maan: Witbaard-Weekhart. Ethnographisch verhaaluit Afrika voor jongelieden. [Eerste nederlandstalige uitgave, tertaald uit het duits door H.N. Brouwer; First dutch language edition translated from the original german by H.N. Brouwer].
Gouda, Van Goor, [..], 1891. Small 8°. Original illustrated cloth with gilded bold type covertitle. (viii), 224pp. steelengraved monochrome frontispiece, 5 steelengraved monochrome plates, preface by P. Louwerse, table of contents. Dutch language boy's adventure story set in Africa in which a picture is painted on the controversy betwee Islam and Christianity, with strong anti-Muslim tendency. Good copy in original publ. cloth. (spine-ends with wear, lower outer cover stained in places, top margin of frontispiece clipped, NOT touching illustration however).
Boeknummer: 53287
€ 95.00
Trefwoorden: ethnography novel literature juvenalia boys adventure controversy islam christianity missionary labour christianization culture africe colonialism history religion muslim