Pictorial History Of The Doukhobors

Hardcover with dust jacket, 280 pages, 9x11 in, [22.5x27.5 cm], B&W photographs. Designed and Illustrated by William Perehudoff

An ex-library copy.

An eager librarian has generously decorated the book and dust jacket with all manner of library accoutrements—envelopes, tape, rubber-stamp markings, labels, handwritten call numbers— a prime example of unrestrained enthusiasm.

The book appears to have seen little circulation, as it remains clean, with only slight age-tanning to the margins.

"... traces Doukhobor history from its obscure beginnings in the early eighteenth-century southern Russia down to the 1960's, in Cyprus as well as in Canada; he examines Doukhobor beliefs; he portrays the often strange enthusiasms that have swept their environment; and he looks at some of the artistic survivals of their handicrafts. The account of recent Doukhobor history is illuminated by personal observation .... With a time span covering some 250 years, this book is truly a definitive pictorial history of the Doukhobors. ..." Quoted from the back flap of the dust jacket.