Eliza, An Iowa Pioneer (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"In 1836, Juergen Korte put his daughter, Eliza, 16, and son, Heinrich, 14, on a ship to America. Eliza’s narrated stories describe their adventures from landing in New Orleans to her final settlement in Iowa. In 1976, when I discovered her tumbled-down gravestone in Balltown, Iowa, I was convinced her descendants needed to be introduced to her. I felt my mission was accomplished when Eliza’s tombstone was restored and an eleven-year-old descendant had placed flowers on her grave after she read Eliza’s letters. Readers feel immigrant struggles and successes from these letters to her family. "