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Historic novel by Leif Lundquist, paperback, 365 pages, in English
New Sweden is in America, but where is America?
Chances are that a young man will be dead within a year if he is drafted into King Gustavus Adolphus’s army to fight for the Protestant cause in the Thirty Years’ War against the Catholics. For Ben Vogel, it’s the beginning of a long, perilous journey to a new land that some still call India. First he must collect war tributes in the midst of misery, starvation, and destruction in Europe. The king falls in battle, and Chancellor Oxenstierna assigns Ben’s company to escort the royal body and the distraught queen home to Stockholm. They battle snowstorms as wolves howl at their heels. They’re attacked by Catholic martyrs, and all the while Queen Maria Eleonora is becoming increasingly deranged. The solemn funeral procession turns into a bizarre carnival.
Historic novel by Leif Lundquist, paperback, 365 pages, in English
Leif Lundquist started writing ten years ago after a long career in the high-tech business and a life of traveling. He has lived in Holland and England, two nations who together with Sweden colonized North America along the Atlantic coast. In the 1960s he lived in the USA, in New Jersey, which was once part Dutch and part Swedish. He now lives in his native Sweden, but spends winters in Tucson, Arizona. He’s a member of the Swedish Colonial Society and the editor of a Swedish website "Nya Sverige i Nordamerika", dedicated to the history of New Sweden. He has written essays and stories and a book “Vinteröken” (Winter Desert) about Southern Arizona.
New Sweden is in America, but where is America?
Chances are that a young man will be dead within a year if he is drafted into King Gustavus Adolphus’s army to fight for the Protestant cause in the Thirty Years’ War against the Catholics. For Ben Vogel, it’s the beginning of a long, perilous journey to a new land that some still call India. First he must collect war tributes in the midst of misery, starvation, and destruction in Europe. The king falls in battle, and Chancellor Oxenstierna assigns Ben’s company to escort the royal body and the distraught queen home to Stockholm. They battle snowstorms as wolves howl at their heels. They’re attacked by Catholic martyrs, and all the while Queen Maria Eleonora is becoming increasingly deranged. The solemn funeral procession turns into a bizarre carnival.
Historic novel by Leif Lundquist, paperback, 365 pages, in English
Leif Lundquist started writing ten years ago after a long career in the high-tech business and a life of traveling. He has lived in Holland and England, two nations who together with Sweden colonized North America along the Atlantic coast. In the 1960s he lived in the USA, in New Jersey, which was once part Dutch and part Swedish. He now lives in his native Sweden, but spends winters in Tucson, Arizona. He’s a member of the Swedish Colonial Society and the editor of a Swedish website "Nya Sverige i Nordamerika", dedicated to the history of New Sweden. He has written essays and stories and a book “Vinteröken” (Winter Desert) about Southern Arizona.
