Author: VELVIS, H.,
Title: Siatjoe uit het land van de Digoel. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Groningen, De Vuurbaak, 1981. Small 8°., original illustrated coloured boards, after a design by Jaap Kramer. 74pp. Frontispiece, 8 full-page black/white plates and one illustration in text all after drawings by Jaap Kramer. BUUR, I.J., 1198 Dutch language juvenile story in which a young Papuan boy originating from a small village in Digoel river basin, Southwestern Irian Jaya, former dutch Territory of New Guinea, after an accident gets in touch with a dutch protestant missionary post where he is taken care for, his conversion to christianity and his return to his tribe together with other missionaries to teach his tribesmen. A very fine copy.

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