Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants

by Joanna Brooks

Book Overview

Joanna Brooks's ancestors were among the earliest waves of emigrants to leave England for North America. They lived hardscrabble lives for generations, eking out subsistence in one place after another as they moved forever westward in search of a new life. Why, Brooks wondered, did her people and countless other poor English subjects abandon their homeland to settle for such unremitting hardship? The question leads her on a journey into a largely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816681252
• ISBN13: 9780816681259
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"