Our Country Series No. 3 edited by Aleksander Jankowski
About Kurpie. With 6 engravings. Adam Chętnik
Contents: 1. About the wilderness and the wilderness people; 2. About the Kurpies - old heirs of the ancient forests; 3. How the people ruled themselves in the wilderness; 4. How the wilderness people earned the proverb: "He shoots like a Kurp"; 5. The village and cottage in Kurpie; 6. The domestic life of the wilderness people, their clothing and customs; customs and speech; 7. The fall of the Kurpie people and the ruin of the wilderness; 8. How the Kurpies do not give in to poverty and how the wilderness can be uplifted
Adam Chętnik (1885-1967)- museologist, social activist, educator, expert on the Kurpie region.
Year of publication: Warsaw 1919, Publishing House M. Arcta in Warsaw
s. 48, 2 plates illustrated with 6 figures.
Format: 21 x 14 cm
Binding: publisher's booklet
Condition: complete, pages with looseness, 6 pages loose, rusty discoloration [foxing - no harm to text], creases in bottom corners of some pages, no signatures or underlining, [PROVENANCE: on title page name stamp: Stefan Główczewski*], cover with rusty discoloration and creases on edges, small numerical signature on front cover [pencil].
*StefanGłówczewski - Participant in the Polish-Bolshevik War. Awarded the Cross of Valor and the Medal of Independence. In independent Poland he lived in Tczew. He worked as a revenue officer. (https://fundacja100.pl/krzyz-i-medal-niepodleglosci/lista-odznaczonych/stefan-glowczewski)
