MiataDrivers - Letters of a German American Farmer: Juernjakob Swehn Travels to America (Bur Oak Book)
Johannes Gillhoff
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Letters of a Johannes Gillhoff epub Letters of a Johannes Gillhoff pdf download Letters of a Johannes Gillhoff pdf file Letters of a Johannes Gillhoff audiobook Letters of a Johannes Gillhoff book review Letters of a Johannes Gillhoff summary | #1520246 in Books | University Of Iowa Press | 2000-05-01 | 2000-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.70 x6.00l,.50 | File type: PDF | 200 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| vun dummboozled translation|By tent pole|Anyone who can read Jürnjakob Swehn der Amerikafahrer in German ought to. Anyone who reads it in this translation needs to know that Jürnjakob didn't sound like a hick before the translator got to him. The translator (who otherwise did a reasonable job, adding historical context and inserting a Biblical reference to make the hu||
|“Whoever wants to farm should stay in Iowa. That's what I think. In Iowa there's plenty of everything: plenty water, plenty hay, plenty corn, plenty potatoes, and plenty opportunity.”—Juernjakob Swehn
Early in the twentieth century, drawing upon the hundreds of letters written to his father by students who had emigrated to northeastern Iowa from Mecklenburg, in northeastern Germany, Johannes Gillhoff created the composite character of Juernjakob Swehn: the archetype of the upright, honest mensch who personified the German immigrant, on his way to a better life through ambition and hard work. Gillhoff's farmer-hero, planting and harvesting his Iowa acres,...
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