From the Inside Flap
MEMOIRS OF AN IMMIGRANT
This true story will take you back through the trials and tribulations of a little boy from Norway whose mother abandoned him in 1944 during WWII when he was only 8 years old and whose father was a hopeless drunk.
Despite terrible injuries during the war, he stares death in the face as a child with many more to follow in later years.
After the horror of WW II, he is forced into a boy's home where he is beaten and brutalized for seven years. To "escape" the boy's home, he dreams about becoming a "Robinson Crusoe" and later, "The Count of Monte Cristo."
In 1956, he arrives in the USA on a cruise ship that later sinks the Italian liner Andréa Dorio. He has only $5.00 in his wallet, and no knowledge of the English language.
Like many other immigrants before him, he learns the English language, and studies with a correspondence school because he can not afford college.
Slowly, he gets recognized for his awesome abilities to solve mountainous problems, bringing one employer a life saving device and taking another out of bankruptcy, and when his efforts are ignored, he starts his own company.
Working 18 hours a day in order to succeed, he collapses into a coma for 4 weeks, and stares death in the face again for the tenth time in his life.
He succeeds in his business, but the evil of others nearly bankrupts him. He fights back for his very existence and turns the greed of others into his own recovery and outsmarts them all.
Ten years later, he faces bankruptcy again due to greed by a corporate giant, and as he fights corporate America, he loses. Just when he is about to submit to failure, read about his incredible discovery on a fateful "Easter Sunday," and watch as the careless ignorance of the corporate giant leads to the full recovery of all his million dollar losses.
From the Back Cover
And then, as you delve into this author's past, you will witness and become part of this individual's musical talents and awesome abilities creating ship models and pieces of art. Ripley's "Believe it or Not" should see this. Can you imagine? A guitar made from 20,000 kitchen matches. (Page 481)
A model of a Hammond Organ with a keyboard so small, one can only play it using toothpicks, and it plays, and that is only the beginning. (Page 489)
Mr. Eriksen is the only person known in the world today who can create museum quality ship models by welding, using steel only.
A fascinating, unbelievable, and heart rendering story that will make you shake your head in disbelief.
