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The old land and the new : the journals of two Swiss families in America in the 1820's / edited and translated by Robert H. Billigmeier & Fred Altschuler Picard ; sketches by Hans Erni.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swiss--United States.
- Swiss.
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 281 pages : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Journals of two Swiss families in America in the 1820's.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1965]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- These are the journals, in English translation, of Johannes Schweizer and Johann Rütlinger, early Swiss immigrants to America, who published the original accounts in Switzerland in 1823 and 1826, respectively. The two men were friends living in the Toggen.
- Contents:
- Note on translation
- Introduction / by R.H. Billigmeier
- Account of a journey to North America and through the most significant parts thereof / by J. Schweizer
- Day book on a journey to North America in the year 1823 / by J.J. Rutlinger.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contains:
- Schweizer, Johannes, 1785-1831. Account of a journey to North America.
- Rutlinger, Johann Jakob, 1790-1856. Day book on a journey to North America in the year 1823.
- ISBN:
- 9780816657094
- 0816657092
- OCLC:
- 233575909
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