y separately published work icon Grunhorn in Australien: Auswanderer-Erlebnisse single work   novel   adventure  
Issue Details: First known date: 1931... 1931 Grunhorn in Australien: Auswanderer-Erlebnisse
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This work offers 'an eye-witness account of the actual procedures of migration from Germany to Australia in 1888....and gives an indication of the financial investment of a migrant, the length of the train journey to Bremen and the conditions on migrant trains and boats...And he reports the difficulty of being a German migrant in Melbourne looking for work.' Manfred Jurgensen Eagle and Emu: German-Australian Writing 1930-1990 (1992).

Notes

  • English translation of the title: A Greenhorn in Australia: The Adventures of a Migrant. The novel has never been published in English.

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Language: German
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Subjects:
  • 1888
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  • Melbourne, Victoria,
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