A delightful tale of an immigrant's lifelong journey from the tiny village of Hornstrup in Nazi-occupied Denmark to the Mojave Desert town of Mesquite, Nevada, down on the Virgin River. On the way, he stopped off to enjoy a misspent youth in another little village, this time in Ireleth, in the beautiful English Lake District. Then it was off to America to spend a decade with a large conglomerate, before heading off to Utah for a thirty-year sojourn among the Mormons. Full of enchanting depictions of village life in both Denmark and England, as well as life among the Mormons of Utah, it's sure to captivate readers from both Europe and America.