Letters of a German American Farmer Download

Author: Johannes Gillhoff
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0877457069

Letters of a German American Farmer: Juernjakob Swehn Travels to America (Bur Oak Book)

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. Get Letters of a German American Farmer literature books for free.
Gillhoff's farmer-hero, planting and harvesting his Iowa acres, joking with his neighbors during the snowy winters, building a church with his own hands, proved so popular with the German public that a million copies of JArnjakob Swehn der Amerikafahrer are in print. Now for the first time this wise and endearing book is available in Engl Check Letters of a German American Farmer our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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