Author: TUITEN-HUVERS, J.,
Title: Naar het land van de Sangireezen. Reisverhaal voor Kinderen. Orig. edn.
Description: Oegstgeest, Zendings Bureau, 1921. sm. 8°. Orig. wrappers, stapled. Tront wrapper with title in bold black type, a large rectangular illustration in centre after a drawing, printed withing an decorative border. 31pp. 4 plates, of which one double-page (centre-fold), 1 illustration in text, all after photographs, text printed within a thin decorative border. BUUR, I.J., 0348. A missionary story for dutch children, comprising the sea-voyage of a protestant missionary couple via Java to the Sangihe-Islands. Incl. observations on opium-addicted chinese of Batavia, the cultural differences between the dutch and the chinese population of Batavia, and their arrival on one of the Sangihe-Islands in in 1913, to start their missionary work. A good copy.

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