Looking Back Over My Shoulder: A Memoir by Rosa Siglaug Benediktson

Moorea Gray,Rosa Siglaug Benediktson

ISBN 10: 0973365714 / ISBN 13: 9780973365719

Published by Benson Ranch Inc, Calgary, 2008

About this Item

8vo pp.132. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page.

Seller Inventory # 321300

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Looking Back Over My Shoulder: A Memoir by Rosa Siglaug Benediktson
• Publisher: Benson Ranch Inc, Calgary
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0973365714
• ISBN 13: 9780973365719
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: no dustjacket
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Alberta

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Synopsis

Born in 1900, near the hamlet of Markervilee, Alberta, Rosa Benediktson was the youngest child of the famous Icelandic-Canadian poet, Stephan G. Stephansson. Rosa's memoir, Looking Back Over My Shoulder, takes readers on a journey to nineteenth-century Iceland, to the fertile plains of North Dakota, and settles on the scenic banks of the Medicine River. Widowed at a young age - with four children - Rosa found strength in her father's poetry, in the memory of her husband, and in the support of family, neighbours, and the Icelandic community. Rosa's memoir is an Alberta historical treasure: a first-hand account of the joys and struggles of pioneer life and the making of an Alberta community.