Hero Tales of the Far North
Every land has its George Washington, its Kosciusko, its William Tell, its Garibaldi, its Kossuth, if there is but one that has a Joan d'Arc. These were my -- our -- heroes. Every lad of Northern blood, whose heart is in the right place, loves them. And he need make no excuses for any of them. Nor has he need of bartering them for the great of his new home; they go very well together. It is partly for his sake I have set their stories down here. All too quickly he lets go his grip on them, on the new shore. Let him keep them and cherish them with the memories of the motherland. The immigrant America wants and needs is he who brings the best o…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4068-3907-4
- EAN: 9781406839074
- Produktnummer: 3011566
- Verlag: Echo Library
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 112 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.6 cm 175 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 175
Über den Autor
JACOB A. RIIS (1849-1914) a Danish immigrant who arrived in New York in 1870 became a newspaper reporter and a social reformer. Having experienced poverty firsthand, he explored the social conditions of the New York poor in articles and books, such as in How the Other Half Lives and The Battle with the Slum. He was also a social documentary photographer, who became famous for his early adoption of flash in photography.
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