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Cargando... The Journey Takers (edición 2010)por Leslie Albrecht Huber
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Leslie Albrecht Huber's ancestors were journey takers, leaving theirhomes in Germany, Sweden, and England behind to sail to the USand start new lives here. Huber sets out to trace these journeys and tounderstand her family - who they were and what mattered to them. As shefollows in their footsteps, walking the paths they walked and looking overthe land they farmed, she finds herself on a journey she hadn't expected.Based on thousands of hours of research, Huber recreates the immigrationexperience in a way that captures both its sweeping historical breadth andits intimately personal consequences. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The book is fascinating because it is filled with facts about the time period and country of the people she wrote about. I learned many new things reading it, among them what tedious and hard work the study of genealogy is! Meticulously researched and well written, this book includes extensive notes, family sheets and a bibliography at the end of the book, which I consulted as I read. It aroused in me a healthy curiosity about researching my own ancestors. I understood the author’s ardent desire to know more about her ancestors because I feel the same way when I visit my aunts in Italy and ask them to tell me about my grandparents and great-grandparents.
But more than just details about her ancestors, Huber’s accounts touched me, especially that of Eliza Barret. I loved the author’s imagination as her mind could reel back in time and she could picture with her researcher’s eye scenes in the lives of her ancestors and what possible decisions their personal conditions led them to make. She traced her roots by travelling to the places where they were born, and walked the streets they once did. By the end of the book, I felt like I also knew these people personally.
No doubt about it, the author has created and left a beautiful legacy to her children: the story of their ancestors with the clear message that family and faith are the most important things in a person’s life. ( )