Unto a Good Land explained

Unto a Good Land
Title Orig:Invandrarna
Translator:Gustaf Lannestock
Author:Vilhelm Moberg
Country:Sweden
Language:Swedish
Series:The Emigrants
Genre:Historical novel
Publisher:Bonniers (Swedish edition)
Pub Date:1952
English Pub Date:1954
Media Type:Print
Pages:490 (Swedish edition)
Isbn:0-87351-320-7
Dewey:839.73/72 20
Congress:PT9875.M5 I613 1995
Oclc:32346945
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.