Description:
Growth of the Soil is the story of a man who walks into the wilderness with nothing but patience and strength. With decades of hard work, he transforms the forest into a large and wealthy farmstead. The book takes place somewhere in the north of Norway, somewhere in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Brief description: W. W. Worster (1883-1929) was a British translator, primarily from the Danish language. He translated Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil in 1920.