Between Rocks and Hard Places

By Ann Urness Gesme

The author addresses not only the indispensable facts of geography and history, culture and society but also the often overlooked aspects of daily life that allow us to glimpse the human beings who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963518909
• ISBN13: 9780963518903
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Gesme Enterprises
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

The best book I've read about Pre Emigration Norway

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.

Between Rocks and Hard Places

If you want to find out what life was like for Norwegians in the times before they started migrating to the USA, this book is an excellent source of information. Everything from food to clothes to government to laws are talked about in the book.

Between Rocks and Hard Places

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."