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Africa : what it gave me, what it took from me : remembrances from my life as a German settler in South West Africa
Uniform Title
Was Afrika mir gab und nahm. English
Title
Africa : what it gave me, what it took from me : remembrances from my life as a German settler in South West Africa / Margarethe von Eckenbrecher ; translated, edited, and introduced by David P. Crandall, Hans-Wilhelm Kelling, and Paul E. Kerry.
ISBN
9781611461503
1611461502
9781611461985
1611461987
9781611461510
Publication
Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2015]
Physical Description
xi, 379 pages ; 24 cm
Notes
Translated from the German.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 27, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Biographical entries
A reader's introduction
Book I
[1] Leaving home
The first ten days
Las Palmas
Monrovia
Nifu
Mossamdes
Port Alexander
Swakopmund
The journey to Karibib
Karibib
By oxcart from Karibib to Okombahe
[2] Okombahe
Something about the natives of the colony
The activities of the missionaries in the protectorate
Our first abode
Worries of a housewife
Building our home
Future plans and disappointments
Cattle raising
Gui-Gams
Cultivating a garden
Experiences and observations
Spitzkoppies
[3] Insurrection
Foreboding weather
The insurrection begins
A dangerous ride
In the fortress
Under the protection of the Franke Company
In the barracks at Omaruru
My return to Germany
Book II
A note to my readers
[1] The new South West
My return to South West Africa
Our idealic life in Klein-Windhuk
[2] How I experienced the First World War
The impending storm
The future is foreshadowed in everyday events
The people of the colony prepare themselves
Mobilization
South Africa begins hostilities
Treachery at Naulila
Our commander dies
A punitive expedition to Naulila
The Baster War
The Germans must be cleared out
General Botha occupies Windhuk
An honorable surrender
Living under martial law
[3] South West becomes a League of Nations mandate
Dissolution?
Expulsions
The influenza epidemic of 1918
Changes
New unrest
The house on the mountain
Life under mandate rule
Our German schools
My sons
Hunting in the African bush and a return to our home in Okombahe
From the Brandberg to Franzfontein
Korichaams
Etoscha and the Waterberg
1934 : the year of torrential rains
Of diamonds, gold, and other treasures
A concluding and final word
Postscript.
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