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Isaac Polvi - The Autobiography of a Finnish Immigrant edited by Joseph Damrell. 1991; 196 pages.
A first-hand account of life in post-feudal Finland at the turn of the Nineteenth Century, Isaac Polvi gives us insight into the lives of the Finnish peasants, their poverty and politics. An unusual story of a twelve-year-old's solitary survival, his immigration to the United States alone, and his subsequent observations of life in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the first half of the Twentieth Century.
Found twenty-seven years after Polvi's death in 1951, ths manuscript, originally written in Finnish, is primary history, precious to the archives of immigrant accounts.
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