Miners, Milkers & Merchants: From the Swiss-Italian Alps to the Golden Hills of Australia and California AUTH-3621890 Dirty Portuguese teaches the casual

Dirty Portuguese teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Brazil:

and book reviews on such subjects as American and British colonial history

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Miners, Milkers & Merchants: From the Swiss-Italian Alps to the Golden Hills of Australia and California AUTH-3621890 Dirty Portuguese teaches the casualMiners, Milkers & Merchants is an moving story of immigrants and history brought alive through the letters of three Swiss Italian brothers who migrated from Ticino to Australia and California during the nineteenth century. Forced by poverty from the Swiss Canton of Ticino, they joined the over twenty nine thousand emigrants, one out of five inhabitants, who left Ticino between the 1850s and the 1930s. In letters written to their father Luigi, the