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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisheriUniverse, Incorporated
ISBN-100595381278
ISBN-139780595381272
eBay Product ID (ePID)52185176
Product Key Features
Book TitleJadwiga's Crossing : a Story of the Great Migration
Number of Pages344 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
TopicGeneral, Historical, Action & Adventure
GenreFiction
AuthorRichard Lutz, Aloysius Lutz
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisNo more time for Germans, she said. As though it was for her to determine this for him. So much was happening. He was forgetting his knapsack, which he was entitled to keep. And he was forgetting the other Polish sergeants-the ones he had agreed to go to town with, to the dance. Already she had him fully confused. And hadn't she mentioned America, even? What was it she said about America? So begins the adventure of Jadwiga's Crossing , a compelling story of emigrants from Poland in the period after America's great Civil War. A young girl from a Baltic fishing community, a proud soldier in service to Prussian militarism, and the love that compels him to take the gamble of a lifetime. Theirs is no simple voyage to the New World as they deal with the challenges of a mismanaged squarerigger, discord among their fellow passengers, a scarcity of food, and mounting disasters. Website: JadwigasCrossing.com
A good glimpse into a time of the great migration and what the people took upon themselves to better their life circumstances. Jadwiga is a strong female character.