Grandmother's Journey Author:Edith Unnerstad This happened in olden days when the last Czar was still reigning in Russia and Finland was a Russian Grand Duchy. Twelve-year-old Anders travelled from Vamhus, in Dalecarlia, Sweden, with his grandmother, the Daleswoman Kers Mait, out into the world to earn some money. The journey lasted a year and Anders had to work very hard, but he had a gre... more »at many adventures as well. In the market in Stockholm he met the fifteen-year-old business genius Pepper, who sold everything she could get hold of in order to buy a million books. In Helsingfors, Finland, he turned pirate and became good friends with the mysterious Brunte and with Professor Hektor who was a 'collector of dialects.' In St. Petersburg, Russia, he experienced a flood, became involved in a theft and was mixed up with an even more perilous adventure, and his friends there were the poor student Volodya and the rich boy Alexej and his pretty sisters. The book deals as well with a donkey and a cat, but first and foremost with the mare Lamsa and her foal. It was really for the sake of Lamsa and the foal that Anders embarked on this journey. And Grandmother - well, she was a tower of strength at times. Lucky he had her...« less