Between Rocks and Hard Places [Paperback]

Ann Urness Gesme (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Gesme Enterprises (May 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963518909
• ISBN-13: 978-0963518903
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,644,053 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Between Rocks and Hard Places, June 1, 2009

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Deb Nelson Gourley "Astri My Astri Publishing" (Waukon, IA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Between Rocks and Hard Places (Paperback)

Between Rocks and Hard Places
By Ann Urness Gesme
Published by Caragana Press
Distributed by Astri My Astri Publishing

Traditions, customs, and conditions in Norway during the 1800s, emigration from Norway, the immigrant community in America.

* LOC: 92097349
* ISBN-10: 1886627134
* ISBN-13: 9781886627130
* Non-fiction, 200 pages
* 5.5 inches x 8.5 inches
* Softcover, illustrations
* Language: English

"Through painstaking work on three previous family histories (praised by the Norwegian American Historical Association as "thorough, well-written and carefully organized"), Ann Gesme has developed a deep familiarity with a wide array of primary sources from the emigration period. Now she has judiciously selected the kind of background information you will want to know in order to understand your own Norwegian roots. In her coverage of the span from the land left behind to the new home in the United States, she addresses not only the indispensable facts of geography and history, culture and society, but also the often over-looked aspects of daily life that allow us to glimpse the human beings who understood this incredible journey. The result is a lively and engaging account that is ultimately an excellent portal through which to enter or to broaden your own understanding of the Norwegian-American experience."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Understanding Norwegian Immigrants, October 13, 2010

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This review is from: Between Rocks and Hard Places (Paperback)

Between Rocks and Hard Places is a pleasure to read. Ann Urness Gesme is the rare scholar who writes with her eye always on the heart and soul of her subjects: the Norwegians who emigrated to the United States. She answers the questions you had in mind and those you hadn't thought to ask, taking genealogical research off the dry Census page and into the real lives of our Norwegian ancestors.

Between Rocks and Hard Places

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book I've read about Pre Emigration Norway, April 24, 2010

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M. Stedham - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Between Rocks and Hard Places (Paperback)

This is a fascinating and enlightening book about the day to day existence of people in Norway during the past two centuries. I love to read this book while I'm in Norway staying with relatives. It is wonderful to have this information about how my ancestors lived. I look forward to Ann's next book.