[FIRST GUIDE TO THE SWIETOKRZYSKIE MOUNTAINS] DYBCZYNSKI- A JOURNEY THROUGH THE COUNTRY. FROM THE TURIST'S PORTFOLIO 1909

DYBCZYÑSKI Tadeusz

From the portfolio of a tourist

TRIP ACROSS THE COUNTRY

Description of an 88-mile journey on foot through the country

Warsaw 1909, Wydawnictwo M. Arcta, pp. 163, [1], format 12x19cm

Tadeusz Dybczynski was born in Warsaw on January 12, 1886, and died, fighting in the Warsaw Uprising, on September 13, 1944.

During his school years, T. Dybczynski usually spent his vacations with relatives in Bodzentyn. As a passionate hiker and tourist, he got to know and love the Swietokrzyskie Mountains then. In 1904 he took a hike ("...wrapping his underwear and spare clothes in a backpack, which I carried in straps across my back, taking a revolver in my pocket, topographical maps just in case...") from Bodzentyn through Lysogory, Kielce, Chęciny, Jędrzejów, Miechów, Ojców, Olkusz, Dąbrowa Górnicza to Częstochowa. The description of this expedition is the first publications of Dybczynski (1905, 1909).

HARDBACK SEMI-CANVAS BINDING OF THE PERIOD

DB condition/edge rubbing, bibl. stickers,