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Christopher and Columbus

Christopher and Columbus

Von Arnim, Countess Elizabeth

Paperback

General Juvenile Fiction

ISBN10: 1438513178
ISBN13: 9781438513171
Publisher: Book Jungle
Published: Mar 14 2009
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.68 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Elizabeth von Armin (1866 ù 1941) was born in Australia and grew up in England. After marrying a German count and moving to his estate she began writing childrenZs books. From the first paragraph Elizabeth Von Amim has her readers embracing the two little girls starting out on the adventure of their lives. ôTheir names were really Anna-Rose and Anna-Felicitas; but they decided, as they sat huddled together in a corner of the second-class deck of the American liner St. Luke, and watched the dirty water of the Mersey slipping past and the Liverpool landing-stage disappearing into mist, and felt that it was comfortless and cold, and knew they hadn't got a father or a mother, and remembered that they were aliens, and realized that in front of them lay a great deal of gray, uneasy, dreadfully wet sea, endless stretches of it, days and days of it, with waves on top of it to make them sick and submarines beneath it to kill them if they could, and knew that they hadn't the remotest idea, not the very remotest, what was before them when and if they did get across to the other side, and knew that they were refugees, castaways, derelicts, two wretched little Germans who were neither really Germans nor really English because they so unfortunately, so complicatedly were both, --they decided, looking very calm and determined and sitting very close together beneath the rug their English aunt had given them to put round their miserable alien legs, that what they really were, were Christopher and Columbus, because they were setting out to discover a New World.ö

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