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 18
... watched the surf thundering away behind us ; the great hillsides of green water rose into being and then fell out of being in grand prodigality . Gulls hung over us as we rushed forward and poised themselves with gentle feet ...
... watched the surf thundering away behind us ; the great hillsides of green water rose into being and then fell out of being in grand prodigality . Gulls hung over us as we rushed forward and poised themselves with gentle feet ...
Pagina 25
... watched her face , pulled a little more and watched the trouble , pulled a little more and was found out . Then several of the corpse - like ones smiled , and interest in life was seen to be reviving . Next morning when I was up forward ...
... watched her face , pulled a little more and watched the trouble , pulled a little more and was found out . Then several of the corpse - like ones smiled , and interest in life was seen to be reviving . Next morning when I was up forward ...
Pagina 36
Stephen Graham. ENGLISH Folya RUSSIANS 1 I was up betimes on Saturday morning and watched. Satiron Alexy . Yousha . Karl . Maxim Holost .
Stephen Graham. ENGLISH Folya RUSSIANS 1 I was up betimes on Saturday morning and watched. Satiron Alexy . Yousha . Karl . Maxim Holost .
Pagina 37
Stephen Graham. I was up betimes on Saturday morning and watched the vessel glide out of the darkness of night into the dusk of the dawn . The electric light up in the main- mast , the eye of the mast , squinted lividly in the half ...
Stephen Graham. I was up betimes on Saturday morning and watched the vessel glide out of the darkness of night into the dusk of the dawn . The electric light up in the main- mast , the eye of the mast , squinted lividly in the half ...
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Ameri America Angola asked Astrakhan beautiful bread British cents Chicago church coal coffee crowd dance dark Decoration Day dollars East Ellis Island emigrants English Europe eyes farm farmer feel fire foreign freight train gang German girl Grand Central Station hand immigrants Italians Jews Kuzma labour land Libau living looked machine miles morning nation negro never night Oil City OWEN WISTER Padan-Aram passed peasant Poles poor railway realise reckon road Russian Ruthenians Scranton seemed Shore side Slavs sleep Slovaks smiled smoke Snow Shoe sort Stephen Graham strange streets talk things thought thousand to-day told took town tramp tree turned village walked watched whilst women wonderful Woolworth Building yellow journals York young