Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie Rolvaag OLE Edvart
"The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America."--The NationOle Edvart R lvaag's classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great…
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"The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America."--The NationOle Edvart R lvaag's classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great Plains--a vivid and intimate portrait of the nineteenth-century immigrant experience and the conquest of the American continent.Based in part on Ole Edvart R lvaag's own recollections as well of those of his wife's family who were immigrant homesteaders, Giants in the Earth is the story of a Norwegian family forging a new life amid the harsh, desolate climate of the Dakota Territory. R lvaag recounts the hardships they endured on the high prairie--blizzards, locust storms, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, and culture shock--as well as their simple joys. He evokes the hope and the estrangement these immigrants