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Šuma i Šokci

Mara Švel-Gamiršek

The prose book Šuma i Šokci is Mara Švel-Gamiršek's best work.

In it, using the process of chronicling, he writes about the topic of felling and trade in the famous old Slavonian oaks, which disappeared from the face of this rich country from the 1970s and in the first decades of this century, and with them the economic basis of the former farming life, grazing, herding, acorns...

Dimensions

20 x 14 cm

Pages

216

Publisher

Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 1940.

Latin alphabet. Hardcover.

Language: Croatian.

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