The chess garden, or, The twilight letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven

by Brooks Hansen

1995 481 pages eng

In the fall of 1900, Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven left the chess garden that he and his wife, Sonja, had created together in Dayton, Ohio, and journeyed to South Africa to serve as a doctor in the British concentration camps of the Boer War. Over the next ten months he sent twelve chess pieces and twelve …