The wanderings and fortunes of some German emigrants

The wanderings and fortunes of some German emigrants

The substance of this entertaining bookwhich relates the fortunes of a company of German adventurers bound for the land of promise, with the design of forming a colony thereis evidently no fiction. It is impossible to read many pages without perceiving that the author is telling what he must himself have seen, known, and sufferedso minute and circumstantial is the narrative: and as he is gifted with considerable powers of observing and describing, the reality of his work renders it extremely life-like and engaging. Any true accountand such, in the main, this undoubtedly isof what befals the exiles from Europe in their attempts to settle in the New World, will always have a certain interest for those who remain behind. To English readers, especially, it is something new to learn how it fared with a party of German emigrants in North America. Of the fortunes of many of our own countrymen who have gone thither on the same errand we have perhaps sufficiently heard. But we are little acquainted with what the crowds that have for many years past been leaving Germany for the United States may have to say of their experience. We are glad, therefore, to meet with a writer who is evidently no stranger to this little known history; and who has not only had a personal share in the emigrant's lot and a close acquaintance with many features of that New World to which hope allures him, but a quick eye, as well, to read the characters of men and things, and a ready masculine pen to record his observations. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 42672
Author: Gerstäcker, Friedrich
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Translator: Black, David