Author: LIEFDE, J.L.F. DE,
Title: Toch naar Holland. Zendingsverhaal. [title on front wrapper]. Orig. edn.
Description: Arnhem, Ten Brink, s.d. [..], 1925. Small 8°. Orig. printed wrappers, stapled. 33pp. Text-ills. after drawings by Jeanne Faure, explanatory notes to malay language expressions and words as footnotes, table of contents on verso of last unnumbered lve., publ. list on recto/verso of lower outer wrapper. [Nieuwe Zondagsschool-serie, No. 91, edited by A.L. Gerritsen]. BUUR, I.J., 0391. Dutch language missionary youth story, with as main character a dutch boy, the son to a missionary couple, posted in the interior of Java, and his [limping] javanese friend Oentoeng. With as theme the sending-out to Holland of the boy for further education, incl. i.a. notes on local paganism and efferts to christianization of the local population. Good copy. Scarce. (lower right corner of front wrapper clipped).

Keywords: novel story youth literature missionary labour education conversion paganism religion java javanese friendship colonialism indonesia southeast asia buur