unto a good land

A family who had left all they had known in Sweden for all they dreamed of in the fabled land of America. While I did not enjoy the first book in this series because I found it to be plodding, dark and depressing, I decided to continue with the series. They had survived seasickness, scurvy, depression, fear, poor food and unsanitary conditions in an over crowded hold, but they were here, in the New World. No. I liked this book as much as the first and look forward to reading the rest of the series (hint to Alex). Let’s face it, 2020 is making us long for other timelines. Lake country that looks like their homeland with soil free of stones and rich, top soil up to two shovel full down.Five stars for the following reasons: The writing is excellent and the story is very real. Published

However, once the Swedish emigrants arrived in Stillwater, Minnesota and began settling near Taylors Falls in the Minnesota Territory, I couldn't put it down. Nineteen-Seventeen on the Western Front. They run into many perils and adventures but no immediate tragedies I am happy to report. I find books about pioneers fascinating, and I marvel at how these people survived and thrived despite all the hardships they endured.This sequel was as good as the first book. A soldier spends a quiet afternoon in the front line remembering his past.

The book begins with the family's arrival in the New York of 1850 and the long and fairly arduous journey to Chisago Lake. And so on. The first boI have a goal to read all the books in this tetralogy, which is about Swedish emigrants that come to North America and settle in the Minnesota Territory. In this volume, after a four month voyage across the Atlantic, the group lands in NYC and steam engines their way to Stillwater, Minnesota. The author follows various characters, among them illiterate or barely literate peasants from Smaland who have left Sweden and traveled in 1850 to America to settle. The Nilssons. One reason why this part took me so long could also be that I read the first book a long time ago and had to get aqcuainted with the The first of three parts took me a long time to finish. Now they faced dwindling funds, hunger and weakness, and the inability to understand the language, or make themselves understood, only to be told they still had to travel 1500 miles to Minnesota Territory! It was like a long wait for something to come. Despite being a few decades old and written in an archaic language, this book managed to capture and keep my interest throughout the entire book. Another book I regularly re-read. Unto a Good Land restores the balance by giving religion its appropriate place in the story. In this volume Karl Oscar begins in earnest his new life in the wilderness of territorial Minnesota. So it's back onto a pThe first book in this series got our emigrants off the ship in New York Harbor, after a long grueling ocean voyage. Plenty to laugh at, plenty to cry at, all wonderfully told. The author follows various characters, among them illiterate or barely literate peasants from Smaland who have left Sweden and traveled in 1850 to America to settle.

I have ancestors from Smalland, Sweden and others who actually made this journey so the family connection makes this book that much more interesting, insightful, meaningful, etc. It takes place in 1850 when Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson and their children and other immigrants arrive in NYC from Sweden. It told about the emigrants' journey from their home in Sweden to America. We get they're not really educated, you don't need to remind me every goddamn time. The writing was somehow slow, and maybe it had to be so to describe the experience of the characters correctly. Unto A Good Land. A soldier spends a quiet afternoon in the front line remembering his past. A second in the series for Vilhelm Moberg, the Nilsson family arrive in America, travel to Minnesota and begin their new life. Welcome back. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. They journey to the Minnesota Territory and claim 160 acres. 0445085428 The first of three parts took me a long time to finish.

There was misery, hopelessness, boredom and few important events took place. (If you ever visit Kronoberg in Sweden and see the heart-breaking fields full of huge erratics pushed to one side to enable a bit of pAnother book I regularly re-read. This second of Moberg's four book series on 19th century emigration from Sweden to Minnesota continues to be fascinating.

This book does not need any grand conflict, as the simmering conflict of survival versus death, the new world versus the old world and the future versus the past is ever-present. Certainly the books are making me think differently (and much more inquisitively) about Minnesota's Swedish settlers and my own Swedish ancestors.Book two of the series follows the families from New York to Minnesota and documents their first winter .