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My father's island : a Galapagos quest / Johanna Angermeyer.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7818
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Angermeyer, Johanna, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Angermeyer family.
- Angermeyer, Hans--Homes and haunts--Galapagos Islands.
- Angermeyer, Hans.
- Angermeyer, Johanna--Journeys--Galapagos Islands.
- Angermeyer, Johanna.
- Galapagos Islands--Description and travel.
- Galapagos Islands.
- Homes.
- Travel.
- Voyages and travels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (inscription) (Schimmel 7818)
- Physical Description:
- 302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, genealogical table ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Penguin, 1990
- Summary:
- "Her father Hans and his four brothers had fled Nazi Germany in 1935 and sailed to the Galapagos Islands. For decades they lived a perilous Robinson Crusoe existence surrounded by exotic wildlife. Then Hans died and his daughter, two thousand miles away, yearned to live on the remote Pacific island her father had loved. Through sheer determination, her family returned to the Enchanted Isles and Johanna began to piece together the story of her parents' incredible lives, their forced separation and her father's tragic death."--back cover.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Viking, 1989.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 7818: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Pencil inscription on front cover verso: Caroline F. Schimmel.
- ISBN:
- 0140120343
- 9780140120349
- OCLC:
- 22731340
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