I Went to the Soviet Arctic [Inscribed & Signed by Author]
by Gruber, Ruth
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Slightly cocked; minor wear to board tips; else tight and clean. No jacket.
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Slightly cocked; minor wear to board tips; else tight and clean. No jacket.. Quarto in polished dark grey-blue cloth; x, 333, [1] pages 25 cm. Map on lining-papers. Inscribed "Warmest arctic wishes" by the author. "Ruth Gruber (1911 - 2016) was an American journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian, and United States government official. Born in Brooklyn to Russian Jewish immigrants, she was encouraged to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. At age 20, she received a doctorate from the University of Cologne in Germany, which was awarded for her dissertation -- in German -- on Virginia Woolf. In the 1930s, she established herself as a journalist writing about women under fascism and communism, traveling as far as the Soviet Arctic. She also served two years in Alaska as a field representative of the U.S. Department of the Interior. As World War II raged in Europe, she turned her attention to the crisis of Jewish refugees: acting on behalf of the Roosevelt administration, she escorted 1,000 refugees from Italy to the United States and recorded their stories. She witnessed the scene at the Port of Haifa when Holocaust survivors on the ship Exodus 1947 were refused entry to British-controlled Palestine, and she documented their deportation back to Germany. In subsequent years, she covered the evacuation of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. She was a recipient of the Norman Mailer Prize."-Wikipedia Communism -- Soviet Union. Femmes -- URSS. Communisme -- URSS. Communism. Women. Politische Geografie Travel literature - Soviet Union - 1930-1939. Geographic: Arctic regions. Igarka (Russia) Arctique. Arctic Regions. Russia (Federation) -- Igarka. Soviet Union. Arktis Gruber, Ruth, 1911-2016.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 101577
- Title
- I Went to the Soviet Arctic [Inscribed & Signed by Author]
- Author
- Gruber, Ruth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Slightly cocked; minor wear to board tips; else tight and clean. No jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
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