On Both Sides of the Ocean: A Part of Per Hagen's Journey - 0877320691

On Both Sides of the Ocean: A Part of Per Hagen's Journey - 0877320691

Author: Per Hagen
Title: On Both Sides of the Ocean: A Part of Per Hagen's Journey
Edition: 10th volume of the Travel and Description Series of the Norwegian-American Historical Association
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 70
ISBN: 0-87732-069-1
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Publisher: Colwell/North Central, Inc.
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Pub. Date: © 1984
Language: English
Subjects: Norwegian Immigrants to America
Description: Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by Kate Stafford and Harald Naess
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Synopsis: It is a memoir in fictional form, written in a simple and unpretentious style in the early 1890s by one Per Hagen, a pioneer Norwegian immigrant to eastern Wisconsin.  Through assuming the format of a historical novel, the narrative has an authentic quality, casting light on social conditions both in Norway and among Norwegian immigrants in America.

Library of Congress Catalog Listing

LC control no.: 84141894
Type of material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Personal name: Hagen, Per, 1821-1900.
Main title: On both sides of the ocean : a part of Per Hagen’s journey / translated, with introduction and notes, by Kate Stafford and Harald Naess.
Published/Created: Northfield, Minn. : Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1984.
Related names: Norwegian-American Historical Association.
Description: vii, 70 p. : port.; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0877320691
Notes: Translated from an unpublished manuscript entitled: En del af Per Hagens vandring, written in the early 1890s.
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Norwegians --Wisconsin --History.
Wisconsin --Emigration and immigration.
Series: Publications of the Norwegian-American Historical Association. Travel and description series; v. 10
LC classification: F590.S2 H34 1984
Dewey class no.: 977.5/            0043982      
Language code: engnor
Geographic area code: n-us-wi e-no---

 

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