Sailing Against the Wind: A Novel - Jaan Kross - Books - Northwestern University Press - 9780810126527 - January 30, 2012
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Sailing Against the Wind: A Novel


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Jaan Kross's historical novel Sailing Against the Wind fictionalizes the life of Bernhard Schmidt (1879-1935), an Estonian-born inventor. It is a meditation on national identity, the relationship between history and the individual life, and the mechanisms of the historical novel as a genre.


480 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 30, 2012
ISBN13 9780810126527
Publishers Northwestern University Press
Pages 480
Dimensions 215 × 139 × 28 mm   ·   476 g
Language English  
Translator Dickens, Eric

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