Stories of the Red Soil Immigrants

Many countries' economies were so shattered after WWI that many citizens
felt impelled to seek new lives elsewhere. This book is about eight
European immigrant families who traveled up the Paraná River from Buenos
Aires, Argentina to the red soil region of Misiones - the home of the
Guaraní people, the local Indian tribe. The possibility of being able to
purchase 35 hectares of land motivated immigrants to make this long and
exhausting trip upriver. They knew that their decision to settle in the
Argentinian jungle would mean that they would be facing unknown perils
in a region inhabited by Indians who practiced a culture radically
different from their own. They knew they would be living in a jungle
region inhabited by jaguars, snakes, spiders, and other unknown species.
Discover the odyssey of these immigrant families as they began
establishing themselves in new colonies along the Paraná River.