Unto a Good Land

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Unto a Good Land
Invandrarna.jpg
First edition
Author Vilhelm Moberg
Original title'Invandrarna'
Translator Gustaf Lannestock
Country Sweden
Language Swedish
Series The Emigrants
Genre Historical novel
Publisher Bonniers (Swedish edition)
Publication date
1952
Published in English
1954
Media typePrint
Pages490 (Swedish edition)
ISBN 0-87351-320-7
OCLC 32346945
839.73/72 20
LC Class PT9875.M5 I613 1995
Preceded by The Emigrants  
Followed by The Settlers  

Unto a Good Land (Swedish : Invandrarna, 1952) is a Swedish novel by Vilhelm Moberg. It is the second of his four-novel The Emigrants series.

It was translated into English in 1954, and also published in other languages. Together with the first novel, this was adapted as a film The Emigrants (1971), directed by Jan Troell. A sequel based on the third and fourth novels was released in 1972.

Plot

This novel describes the journey of the Swedish Nilsson family (from The Emigrants) from New York City, New York, where they had landed, to Taylors Falls, Minnesota. With homesteading land available, they settle at the lake Ki-Chi-Saga (now Lake Chisago) in what was then Minnesota Territory. Today this area is Chisago County of the state of Minnesota.) There the Nilssons started building a dwelling and structures for a farm.

Robert, Karl-Oskar's younger brother, takes off for California with his friend Arvid to join the search for gold, as the Gold Rush is still on.


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