Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Blue Ribbons,Bitter Bread : The Life of Joice Nankivell Loch
by De Vries, Susanna
- New
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0868066915
- ISBN 13
- 9780868066912
- Seller
-
STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Sydney, Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 2000 Book. New. Trade Paperback. 1st. Australian Ed... Joice Nankivell was born in Australia and during her long and eventful life was in Ireland during the troubles, joined with her husband Stanley Loch in the Quaker missions that were sent to help the Polish devastated by World War I, and then to Greece to assist with the population displaced from Asia Minor. After which she and her husband settled into an old Byzantine tower at Prosforion, on the border with Mt.Athos where she established a rug weaving workshop for the refugee women. During World War II she helped Jewish refugees get to Israel.. Well deserving her status as "the most decorated Australian woman." 360p.plates[some color] maps.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040986
- Title
- Blue Ribbons,Bitter Bread : The Life of Joice Nankivell Loch
- Author
- De Vries, Susanna
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Edition
- 1st. Australian Ed..
- ISBN 10
- 0868066915
- ISBN 13
- 9780868066912
- Publisher
- Hale & Iremonger
- Place of Publication
- Sydney, Australia
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- LOCH JOICE NANKIVELL SYDNEY MOUNT ATHOS GREECE REFUGEES MACEDONIA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies; Greece - Social Life & Customs; Australians in Greece;
Terms of Sale
KALAMOS BOOKS
All books are carefully described. If the book you receive does not match,then please contact Kalamos Books, so we can address the problem. We can accept payments (Cash, Cheques, Postal Orders and International Money Orders)in your choice of the following currencies - CAN $, US$, UK Pounds and Euros - enquire for quotes at the current rate of exchange.
About the Seller
KALAMOS BOOKS
Biblio member since 2004
STREETSVILLE, Ontario
About KALAMOS BOOKS
Kalamos Books specializes in Books about Greece (Ancient,Byzantine and particularly Modern Greece) and also books about the Balkans & Ottoman Turkey. As well there is a wide selection of Fiction including stories set in Greece, or by Greek authors, as well as historical novels. We can special order books from Greece and handle library purchase orders for books in Greek. In addition we have interesting travel books about other countries, and have some Canadiana and popular fiction.Ask about antique maps and prints and vintage postcards of Greece.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...