Veedam Voldeman (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Spine with slanting and concavity. Large tear to blank lower margin of one leaf (pages 225-6). Loss of upper 60mm of rear panel of dust-jacket, with loss to advertisement. ; Fourth impression, in same year as the first printing. 255, [1 (blank)] pages + 7 photographic illustrations on 2 plate leaves. Maps on endpapers. Full page plan "Scale Drawing of the Erma" on 1 paginated leaf. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 135mm. "No one, not even an N.K.V.D. Agent, watching the Erma's departure from a small Swedish port, could have supposed it to be the beginning of a transatlantic crossing A family picnic trip, yes; but a sea trip of 8,000 miles with 16 men, women and children aboard an old sloop made for four [. . .] Exiled Estonians these people were, ordered to return to their Russian-controlled native country; they chose instead to sail for freedom - and hunger sailed with them. From port to port they staggered on. They were showered with kindness in Scotland, and the Irish went wild about them." - from dust-jacket blurb.