The native's return; an American immigrant visits Yugoslavia and discovers his old country
by Louis Adamic
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Excerpt from The Native's Return: An American Immigrant Visits Yugoslavia and Discovers His Old Country Guggenheim Fellowship requiring me to go to Europe for a year, I was thirty-three and had been 1n the United States nineteen years. At fourteen - a son of peasants, with a touch of formal city education - I had emigrated to the United States from Carniola, then a tiny Slovene province of Austria, now an even tinier part of a banowna in the new Yugoslav state; In those nineteen years.. I show more had become an American; ih deed, I had often thought I was more American than W'ere most of the native citizens of my acquaintance. I was ceaselessly, almost fanatically, interested 1n the Amer ican scene; in ideas and forces operating in America's national life, in movements, tendencies and personalities, in technical advances, in social, economic, and political problems, and generally in the tremendous drama of the New World. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. show lessTags
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- 914.97 — History & geography Geography & travel Geography of and travel in Europe Other European Countries Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia; Yugolavia 1918-1991
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