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

Published Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 379 pages) 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 Summary Africa: What It Gave Me, What It Took from Me is a memoir of an extraordinary woman who, as a newlywed, travelled with her husband to German South West Africa, a colony situated just above South African on the Atlantic coast Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Translated from the German Print version record Subject Eckenbrecher, Margarethe von, 1875-1955. Germans -- Namibia -- Biography Women pioneers -- Namibia -- Biography Farmers -- Namibia -- Biography Frontier and pioneer life -- Namibia BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General. HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa. Ethnic relations Farmers Frontier and pioneer life Germans Manners and customs Women pioneers SUBJECT Namibia -- History -- 1884-1915 -- Biography Namibia -- History -- 1915-1946 -- Biography Namibia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century Namibia -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century Okombahe (Namibia) -- Biography Subject Namibia Namibia -- Okombahe Genre/Form Biographies History Form Electronic book Author Crandall, David P., 1960- editor. Kelling, Hans-Wilhelm, editor. Kerry, Paul E., editor. ISBN 9781611461510 1611461510

Other Titles Was Afrika mir gab und nahm. English

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