Blow, Silver Wind: A Story of Norwegian Immigration to America (Used Hardcover) - Erik Bye, Karl Erik Harr (Illustrator)

Condition: This book is in Good Condition. There are some small tears on the edges of the dust cover. The pages are clean and unmarked, except for a penciled price marking on the flyleaf.

From the author's introduction:

"The contents of this book are based largely on manuscripts written in the United States in 1974-75, in connection with the celebration of the 150th anniversary of organized Norwegian immigration to America.

"I use the word 'celebration' in the American sense--in Norway we took care to replace it with terms such as 'Utvandrerminne'--'Emigrant remembrance' or 'Memorial.' We chose to 'observe' the anniversary; one does not naturally 'celebrate' the fact that a substantial part of our population found life so unbearable at home that they packed up and left! There was, of course, much tragedy in the emigrant story, and it was only correct to recognize this, although the story has other and far more cheerful aspects as well."

119 pages

Illustrated with black and white drawings

8-1/2" wide, 10-1/4" long, 1" depth

Published 1978 Norwegian American Cultural Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota