To jest Wojewuctwo Floryda – tam nima nigdy zimy, ani śniegu. Wędrówki Podhalan za „Wielką Wodę”
This is Florida Voivodeship – Here’s No Winter and No Snow. The Podhale Highlanders Travelling to the Land Beyond the “Great Water”

Summary/Abstract: The author attempted to follow the phenomenon of “wandering cultures” by evoking the experiences of émigrés from the Podhale region who in the course of the past century reached the ”American paradise”. The point of departure for the presented reflections is composed of letters written by the highlanders at the beginning of the twentieth century and the experiences recorded therein as well as those resulting from a confrontation with the new reality of “great America”, so different from their native Tatra Mts. An acquaintance with those autobiographical accounts–confessions makes it possible to take a closer look at the inner world of the émigrés as well as at the problems and challenges, which they were compelled to tackle at the onset of a life in a new country ”across the great water”.

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