Author: W. G. Sebald
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: emigrants
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 1997-09-17
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0811213668
ISBN-13: 9780811213660

Published to enormous critical acclaim in the US and sold out immediately in its first hardcover edition, The Emigrants has been acclaimed as "one of the best novels to appear since World War II" (Review of Contemporary Fiction) and three times chosen as the1996 International Book of the Year. The poignant and acclaimed novel about the beauty of lost things, while the protagonist traces the lives of four elderly German/Jewish exiles. The Emigrants is composed of four long narratives which at first appear to be the straightforward accounts of the lives of several Jewish exiles in England, Austr

Author: J. M. Peck
Publisher: Echo Library
Keywords: west, emigrants, guide, new
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2009-09-14
List price: $16.90
ISBN-10: 1406894265
ISBN-13: 9781406894264

First published 1836 and written by an American Baptist missionary to the western frontier of the United States who helped establish 900 Baptist churches over 40 years.

Author: George Lamming
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: paperbacks, arbor, ann, emigrants
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1994-07-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0472064703
ISBN-13: 9780472064700

A compelling and intricate novel of emigration and the effects of colonialism on a people

Author: Johan Bojer
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Keywords: books, borealis, emigrants
Number of Pages: 365
Published: 1991-10-15
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 087351260X
ISBN-13: 9780873512602

Bojer’s novel of Norwegian emigration in the 1880s tells of young villagers who leave the Old World to seek a better life. Their trek takes them to homesteads in North Dakota, where they find that breaking the sod and surviving blizzards are easier than feeling at home in this new land. First published in 1925.

Author: David Fitzgerald
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: migration, manages, mexico, emigrants, nation
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-12-02
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0520257057
ISBN-13: 9780520257054

What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contract with their citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control outflow, the Mexican state now emphasizes voluntary ties, dual nationality, and rights over obligations. In this groundbreaking book, David Fitzgerald examines a region of Mexico whose citizens have been migrating to the United States for more than a century. He finds that emigrant citizenship does not signal the decline of t

Authors:Gilbert Imlay, Amanda Gilroy, W. M. Verhoeven,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, emigrants
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0140436723
ISBN-13: 9780140436723

Set on the Western frontier of the new America, this epistolary novel combines a love story with descriptions of the landscape and of wilderness adventures, including one of the first instances of Indian captivity in American fiction.

Authors:Vilhelm Moberg,  Gustaf Lannestock,
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Pre
Keywords: book, emigrants, land, unto
Number of Pages: 402
Published: 1995-09-15
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0873513207
ISBN-13: 9780873513203

Book Two opens in the summer of 1850 as the emigrants disembark in New York City. Their journey to a new home in Minnesota Territory takes them by riverboat, steam wagon, Great Lakes steamship, and oxcart to Chisago County.