More from the Primeval Forest

  • Year 1925 – 1928
  • Type Book
  • Genre autobiography
  • Tradition Lutheran
  • Original language German

For For readers who have finished On the Edge of the Primeval Forest and want the story of the hospital's second founding; not a first book.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher
2 of 5 useful
Difficulty
1 of 5 light

His reports on returning to Lambaréné in 1924 and rebuilding the hospital. The sequel to On the Edge of the Primeval Forest.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 0 of 5
  • Scriptural 0 of 5
  • Experiential 3 of 5
  • Sociological 4 of 5
  • Historical 3 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Reports on Schweitzer's return to Lambaréné in 1924 and the rebuilding of his hospital, issued in German in three parts between 1925 and 1928 and gathered in English in C. T. Campion's translation of 1931, More from the Primeval Forest (published in America as The Forest Hospital at Lambarene). They continue the story of On the Edge of the Primeval Forest: the decayed buildings he found, the famine and dysentery epidemic, and the decision to move the hospital to a new site.

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