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The Last Colony Dorothy Bassett

The Last Colony By Dorothy Bassett

The Last Colony by Dorothy Bassett


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A story of the lives of pioneers in Victoria, Misiones, Argentina

The Last Colony Summary

The Last Colony by Dorothy Bassett

This is the story about a very ordinary family, which when faced with financial hardship during the depression of the 1930s, emigrated to Argentina, and settled in Misiones on the banks of the Rio Parana, in the north east of the country. Along with about sixty others they founded a small and mostly British colony, situated 70 kilometres south of the famous Iguazu Falls. It became known as Victoria. Nothing seems to have been written of the everyday story about these stalwart pioneers 85 years ago. This book, which is written in English with a Spanish translation, serves to set the record right, describing their cooperation with one another, the hardships they suffered, and highlighting their achievements.

About Dorothy Bassett

Dorothy Bassett was born in Wolverhampton in 1892 and later attended Birmingham University between 1911 and 1913 where she trained as a primary school teacher. She was married in 1915 in Birmingham. June her daughter was born in 1918 and in 1921 the family moved to Burma and then India and Singapore where her husband had secured a job designing and building bridges. In the early 1930s they returned to England but fell victim to the depression. It was then that the events described in this book took place. In 1941 she became the Personal Assistant to the Director of the British Council in Buenos Aires, Sir Eugen Millington-Drake, organising and travelling extensively on lecture tours. At the end of World War 2, she and June returned to England where Dorothy secured a job with the Oxford University Press establishing the Foreign Translation Department. On her retirement she undertook the complex task indexing versions of the important work `A Study of History' by Arnold Toynbee.

Table of Contents

Chapter I, May, 1933; Chapter II, August, 1933; Chapter III, Late August, 1933; Chapter IV, September, 1933; Chapter V, October, 1933; Chapter VI, January, 1934; Chapter VII, October 1834; Chapter VIII, January, 1935; Chapter IX, February, 1936; Chapter X, August, 1936; Chapter XI, March, 1937; Chapter XII, June, 1937; Chapter XIII, October, 1937; Chapter XIV, January, 1938; Chapter XV, June, 1938; Chapter XVI, January, 1939; Chapter XVII, July, 1939; Chapter XVIII, January, 1940; Chapter XIX, August, 1940; Spanish Edition begins at Page 205;

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GOR012934405
9781789630206
1789630207
The Last Colony by Dorothy Bassett
Used - Very Good
Paperback
The Choir Press
20190720
408
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