Firth Haring Fabend
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Fabend, Firth Haring
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Haring, Firth
- Geboortedatum
- 1937
- Geslacht
- female
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- 9
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- 1
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- 77
- Populariteit
- #231,246
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 16
As it turned out, plenty. Immediately, or at least on page 8, the author got my attention by taking a deeper dive into the story of the Walloons. These forgotten people might have gotten top billing over the Pilgrims, or at least equal fame, if anyone else had documented who they were and why they were actually the very first group of European settlers in New Amsterdam. If history had played out differently, we might all speak French today and look back to Belgium, instead of England, as our original “mother country.” There is a wonderful inclusion in the book of most of the very complex characters, situations, and pivotal events in the tapestry of life that was New Netherland during the decades before and leading up to the English “conquest” of New Netherland. This great story is presented in short, manageable segments without overwhelming the casual reader.
The author takes the bare-bones skeleton framework of historical notes and fleshes them out, dressing them up for us in period costumes to complete the picture and dropping us back into that time and place. The wonderful addition of L.F. Tantillo works and other illustrations brings the reader completely into that early drama. This story, nearly forgotten by many Americans, is a fun and easy read, even more so since it echoes down through the centuries with too many of the same issues we are still facing today, four hundred years later.… (meer)