Unto a Good Land

{{short description|1952 novel by Vilhelm Moberg}}

{{Infobox Book |

| name = Unto a Good Land

| title_orig = Invandrarna

| translator = Gustaf Lannestock

| image = File:Invandrarna.jpg

| image_caption = First edition

| author = Vilhelm Moberg

| illustrator =

| cover_artist =

| 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 ({{langx|sv|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 was also published in other languages. Together with the first novel, it 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

The 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 Lake Ki-Chi-Saga (now Lake Chisago), Minnesota Territory. (Today, the area is Chisago County, 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 to join the Gold Rush.

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Category:1952 novels

Category:Novels by Vilhelm Moberg

Category:Swedish-language novels

Category:Novels about immigration to the United States

Category:Works about Swedish-American culture

Category:The Emigrants (novel series)

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