Author: J. M. BARTLETT (Writer of Verse.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Emigrant's Return; a Ballad: and Other Poems
Author: J. M. BARTLETT (Writer of Verse.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Unto a Good Land
Author: Vilhelm MobergThe Emigrants
Author: W. G. SebaldPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811221296
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school teacher, and Great Uncle Ambrose. Following (literally) in their footsteps, the narrator retraces routes of exile which lead from Lithuania to London, from Munich to Manchester, from the South German provinces to Switzerland, France, New York, Constantinople, and Jerusalem. Along with memories, documents, and diaries of the Holocaust, he collects photographs—the enigmatic snapshots which stud The Emigrants and bring to mind family photo albums. Sebald combines precise documentary with fictional motifs, and as he puts the question to realism, the four stories merge into one unfathomable requiem.
Cosmocartography
Author: Ciarán HodgersPublisher:
ISBN: 9781911570530
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cosmocartography is the debut poetry collection from multi-award-winning Irish poet Ciarán Hodgers. It investigates a wide range of personal experiences, challenges what it means to belong and documents the journeys we take to understand ourselves, the triumphs and trauma of the stories we carry in us. Ranging in scale from the quiet introversion of meditations on identity to the epic, cinematic movements of the universe, this poetry collection is a love letter to celebration, survival, love and resistance.
The Hoosier's Nest
Author: John FinleyThe Emigrant's Family; Or, Scotland and Australia. A Tale Founded on Real Life. And Other Poems
Author: William JamiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Emigrant
Author: Alexander McLachlanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind tooled bindings
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California
Author: Lansford Warren HastingsPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1557092451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Published in 1845, this guidebook for pioneers is a reproduction of one of the most collectible books about California and the Western movement. It was the guidebook used by the Donner Party on their fateful journey. In addition, because Hastings' shortcut route through the Rockies produced such tragedy, the War Department commissioned The Prairie Traveler.
The Emigrant Experience
Author: Margaret MacDonellPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487586299
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Every man has a story to tell and this was no less true of the hundreds of emigrants from the Highlands and the Hebrides who crossed the Atlantic from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century to settle in North America. This selection of Scottish Gaelic songs brings to light the revealing and often touching poems of some twenty such emigrants. Focusing on themes of emigration and exile, their subjects range from the biblical motif of liberation from tyranny (pre-destined by the Creator who provided a land of bounty across the seas), to the happier future anticipated for his daughter by a loyalist fugitive in North Carolina; from a sense of security on the part of a clergyman settled in Pictou County after the disruption in his homeland, to the disenchantment of an emigrant to Manitoba who longed to move on to North Dakota. Their tone may be lyrical, elegaic, or satirical. Songs from various parts of the new world – the Carolinas, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Ontario, and the Canadian west – are included in Gaelic with a facing English translation. A short biography of each bard prefaces the selections attributed to him or her. Detailed notes provide a guide to sources and variant texts, elucidate obscure passages, and define the social and cultural context in which the songs originated. An appendix reproduces the tunes for nine of these songs. This is a book that will inform and entertain both the specialist and the general reader.
A Nation of Emigrants
Author: David FitzGeraldPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520942479
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
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 the nation-state but does lead to a new form of citizenship, and that bureaucratic efforts to manage emigration and its effects are based on the membership model of the Catholic Church.