First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo in maroon cloth w/gold spine titles. Fine and unmarked book in Fine DJ. GENERICALLY INSCRIBED "["Alles Gute"] AND SIGNED BY TRANSLATOR. 304 p.

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Title

New Worlds to Seek: Pioneer Heinrich Leinhard in Switzerland and America, 1824-1846 [SIGNED]

Publisher

Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL

Publication Date

2000

Language

English

ISBN 10

0809322331

ISBN 13

9780809322336

Binding

Cloth

Edition

1st Edition.

Printing

1st Printing

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

Signed

Signed by Translator

Book Type

Book

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A selection from Heinrich Lienhard's manuscript autobiography, covering the years after his birth through his first several years in America. It covers his early years and boyhood in Switzerland, the journey to America, and his times in the Highland, Illinois, and in the upper Mississippi Valley.

About the Author

Raymond J. Spahn is a professor emeritus of German at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

John C. Abbott is a professor emeritus, Lovejoy library, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Spahn and Abbott have collaborated on four previous books about the Swiss in Highland, Illinois: The Story of the Settling of Highland; New Switzerland in Illinois; The Swiss on Looking Glass Prairie: A Century and a Half 1831?1981; and Journey to New Switzerland.

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