Suomesta Sointulaan: Siirtolaiselämän Kuvauksia [From Finland to Sointula: Descriptions of Migrant Life]

  • Superior, WI: Työmies Society, n.d. (ca 1940s)
By [UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES] SAVELA, Evert
Superior, WI: Työmies Society, n.d. (ca 1940s). First Edition. Octavo (21cm); light blue card wrappers, printed in red and navy blue; [4],5-143,[1]pp; text is entirely in Finnish. Gentle sunning and light wear to spine and extremities, with some dust-soil to lower front wrapper; contents clean; Very Good+.

Uncommon novel (in Finnish) set in the Kalevan Kansa Colony, a short-lived socialist utopia founded in 1901 on the island of Sointula, off the coast of British Columbia. Text entirely in Finnish. OCLC notes 12 holdings, of these, only 8 in the U.S.

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