New York Herald Tribune Book Review Impressive not merely for its epical scope but for its deep understanding of the psychology of the immigrants. and it brings home to you sharply once again that in this span of a lifetime the face of the past, the face that so many preceding generations would have recognized, has disappeared for good. New York Times Book Review The portrait of Minnesota is authentic. This isnt a novel about pioneering it is pioneering. Review Quotes A tribute to the unconquerability of the human spirit. The other books in the series-The Emigrants (I), The Settlers (III), and The Last Letter Home (IV)-are also available from the Minnesota Historical Society Press. Their journey to a new home in Minnesota Territory takes them by riverboat, steam wagon, Great Lakes steamship, and oxcart to Chisago County. The second book in the series, Unto a Good Land opens in the summer of 1850 as the emigrants disembark in New York City. These reprint editions contain introductions written by Roger McKnight of Gustavus Adolphus College, and they restore Mobergs bibliography not included in earlier English editions.

First published between 19 in Swedish, these four books were considered a single work by Moberg, who intended that they be read as documentary novels. Mobergs extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections enabled him to incorporate many details of pioneer life. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble peoples lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels. Book Synopsis Considered one of Swedens greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish immigrants in America.

About the Book The second book in Mobergs classic Emigrant Novels series.

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