Life at the Top of the World: Growing Up on Sweden's Arctic Circle - Couverture souple

Saraka, Sandra

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1038322421 ISBN 13 : 9781038322425

Editeur : FriesenPress, 2025

Synopsis

'Life at the Top of the World: Growing Up on Sweden's Arctic Circle' highlights the story of Maria Maki Anttila, a Finnish-Swede residing in the northern hamlet of Juoksengi. Born in a sauna overlooking the Tornio River in the late 1800s, Maria learns not only to milk cows and churn butter on her family farm, but also to help with their grief at the passing of her two brothers. Her Mother's Finnish Bible with key verses signaled with a thread, mends hearts with hope and strength both during the prolonged winter nights and summers of the midnight sun.
With a yearning to explore new worlds and with few prospects for marriage in her small village, Maria, alone immigrates to Superior, Wisconsin in 1903, grasping but a scant vocabulary of English.
She is joined by her best friend, Hulda and, Hulda's two sisters. Together through a series of unlikely twists and turns in search of future husbands, they depart to connect with a community of Finnish settlers in Fort William, Ontario, later to become Thunder Bay.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sandra, born and raised in Fort William / Thunder Bay, is a retired teacher, and retired co-proprietor with her husband.
Passionate pastimes include teaching Bible studies, researching family history, and composing short stories.
Sandra is Mom to three grown children and Nana to four girls. Her desire is for readers to embrace God's peace
and strength through the pages of her family memories.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: FriesenPress
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1038322421
• ISBN 13: 9781038322425
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 156
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• Personne responsable: non disponible