Relief Work as Pilgrimage: "Mademoiselle Miss Elsie" in Southern France, 1945-1948

by M.J. Heisey and Nancy Heisey

In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercanti re, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. This book, based her diary, oral testimony, and archival research, draws on these various contexts to establish the complexity and significance of pilgrimage and humanitarian service as intercultural exchanges.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498508103
• ISBN13: 9781498508100
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"