Keywords
Danish immigration, Danih authors, travel, literature
Abstract
Sick at heart and world-weary at the age of twenty-seven, Captain Wilhelm Dinesen (1845-95) turned his back on Europe and set sail for America. The year was 1872. Danish immigration was on the rise, and many immigrants dreamed of making their fortune in the land of opportunity. Dinesen had other reasons. His fortune was already secure, for he had been born to wealth and privilege. As a young man, however, he had gone to war, but war had led to defeat, and defeat to bloody civil war. How could he forget the horrors he had seen and experienced? What he needed now, and what he hoped to find in the wide-open spaces and free air of the New World, was peace of mind.
Recommended Citation
Dinesen, Wilhelm
(2010)
"Boganis in America: The American Adventures of Karen Blixen's Father,"
The Bridge: Vol. 33:
No.
1, Article 9.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge/vol33/iss1/9
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