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Around the world in eleven years / by Patience, Richard and John Abbe
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 8014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abbe, Patience, author.
- Abbe, Richard, author.
- Abbe, Johnny, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages and travels--Juvenile literature.
- Voyages and travels.
- Europe--Description and travel.
- Europe.
- Child authors.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Juvenile books.
- photographs.
- photobooks.
- Juvenile works
- Books.
- Photographs.
- Photobooks.
- Physical Description:
- xii pages, 2 leaves, 3-204 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co., [1936]
- Summary:
- Told through the eyes of children, this book chronicles 11 years of the Abbe children's lives as they travel from France to Austria (briefly), Russia, Germany, and the United States of America with their parents. The time period is the 1920s-1930s.
- Contents:
- France
- Austria and Germany
- Russia
- Hitler Germany
- England, and the boat to America
- America
- These are the people we like
- These are the animals we like.
- Notes:
- Eighth printing, June 10, 1936.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8014: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Caroline F. Schimmel bookplate on front pastedown. With dust jacket.
- OCLC:
- 1569875430
- Bound With:
- Schimmel 8014 in box with: Around the world in eleven years / by Patience, Richard and John Abbe.
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