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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairieby: O.E. Rolvaag  List Price: $8.00 Price: $3.33 You Save: $4.67 (58%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.82372 EAN: 9780060830472 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0060830476 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: 1991-11 Publisher: Harper Perennial Studio: Harper Perennial Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A Fascinating ClassicThis classic, written by Norwegian immigrant and professor O.E. Rolvaag, concerns a group of Norwegians who decide to move west from Minnesota. The hardships which beset them are described in detail, from hunger, to grasshopper plagues, to, finally, madness. This book is well written, with language accessible to the modern reader, even though it was written in the 1920's. This is my second time reading it and, as with every great book, there is more to be uncovered with every reading. Rating:  - Giants in the EarthStudy of Norwegian immigrants settling in Iowa - well written and authorative. Gives you the sense of what the pioneers went through to create new settlements in the Dakota territory in the 1880's Rating: - Wonderful book! I highly recommend this book to anybody interested in how the prairie was settled. The heritage covered in the book is so interesting and really helps the reader to understand what the people went through. I just finished it and am so angry at Beret. Very emotional book! Rating:  - Found it on my son's 8th grade reading listI had never heard of this book until I saw it on my 8th grade son's reading list. Growing up in the South, and living in the West since '72, I was totally unfamiliar with the history of Norwegian immigrants in America. I found the book interesting, albeit, did not like how the story omitted some details, chapter to chapter, I wanted to know everything, maybe I'm shallow, but.... I was amazed to find out how many people, especially co-workers, had read this book, and it was responsible for ... Read More Rating: - Powerful characters, beautifully writtenLike Moberg's novels of the Swedish emmigrant experience in Minnesota, Rolvaag's earlier Saga of the Prairie tells of the Norwegian frontier settlers in Dakota Territory. Rolvaag's prose is richly evocative of the solitude and loneliness of the wide prairie expanses and the savage elements of winter blizzards and summer locust plagues. His characters are deep and complex, and the whole story reads like a literary soap opera almost impossible to put down. A great achivement, highly recommended. 
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