With Poor Immigrants to AmericaApplewood Books, 30 gen 2003 - 392 pagine An Englishman tries to experience the immigration process the way the poor of Russia and Europe do, traveling from NYC to Chicago (often on foot). |
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Pagina ix
... tramp's dressing - room . A 12. By the side of the highway to Michigan : the electric freight train 13. An Indiana farm : the wind - well behind it , the wheatfield in front . 14 . " The cream - vans come along and buy up all the cream ...
... tramp's dressing - room . A 12. By the side of the highway to Michigan : the electric freight train 13. An Indiana farm : the wind - well behind it , the wheatfield in front . 14 . " The cream - vans come along and buy up all the cream ...
Pagina xv
... tramp or the pilgrim . There are a million or so of them on the road in the summer . They are characteristic of Russia . In them the Russian confesses that he is a stranger and a pil- grim upon the earth . The Christianity of Russia is ...
... tramp or the pilgrim . There are a million or so of them on the road in the summer . They are characteristic of Russia . In them the Russian confesses that he is a stranger and a pil- grim upon the earth . The Christianity of Russia is ...
Pagina 21
... tramp in a dusty peak - hat . The latter was called Yoosha . " You see , all I've what I stand up in . pocket , and not a got , " said Alexy to me , " is just Not a copeck of my own in my basket of clothes . My friend Yoosha is lending ...
... tramp in a dusty peak - hat . The latter was called Yoosha . " You see , all I've what I stand up in . pocket , and not a got , " said Alexy to me , " is just Not a copeck of my own in my basket of clothes . My friend Yoosha is lending ...
Pagina 31
... tramp , and pick up a living here and there in the country , and live on fruit and birds ' eggs , sleeping anywhere . It would be better than feeling so mean at home . But then , my girl - every night I had to see her . I felt I could ...
... tramp , and pick up a living here and there in the country , and live on fruit and birds ' eggs , sleeping anywhere . It would be better than feeling so mean at home . But then , my girl - every night I had to see her . I felt I could ...
Pagina 46
... tramp . This did not at all please the inspector . He would not accept that definition of my occupation , so he put me down as author . " Are you an anarchist ? " " No. " " Are you willing to live in subordination to the laws of the ...
... tramp . This did not at all please the inspector . He would not accept that definition of my occupation , so he put me down as author . " Are you an anarchist ? " " No. " " Are you willing to live in subordination to the laws of the ...
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