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By Charles Paterson,Carrie Paterson,Hensley Peterson,Paul Anderson

ISBN-10: 0997003464

ISBN-13: 9780997003468

"An engrossing saga, profusely illustrated and completely documented, the stuff that makes an exciting function movie. I heartedly propose it."
— Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Director, The Frank Lloyd Wright Archives


"One of the extra uplifting bills of eu émigré existence that i've got learn in an extended time.... it is going to contact you to tears without delay, despite what number money owed of comparable fates you think to have studied and understood.... What a book!"
— Volker M. Welter, writer of Ernest L. Freud, Architect


Charles Paterson (born Karl Schanzer, 1929) used to be in simple terms 9 years previous while the Nazis invaded Austria and his father, Stefan, fled together with his young ones to prevent persecution. to guarantee their persisted defense, the youngsters have been baptized and followed via the Paterson relatives in Australia whereas Stefan made a harrowing get away via occupied France. it might be 8 years, after a lot sorrow and loss, sooner than Charles and his sister may reunite with Stefan within the United States.

After Charles and Stefan settle in Aspen, Colorado, amidst the snow-capped peaks that remind them of the Austrian Alps, Stefan turns into a highschool instructor identified for his humor and event tales whereas Charles teaches snowboarding, serves as a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice, after which builds his thesis undertaking, the The Boomerang ski resort. Charles lives with Stefan on the Boomerang and, as Aspen grows right into a world-class ski hotel, spends fifty years welcoming hundreds of thousands of individuals to town with Austrian heat and gemütlichkeit. in keeping with archival records and letters, including the authors’ own reflections, Escape Home is a relations memoir and a meditation at the family features of structure, the place the bonds of tradition and relatives turn out to be the real origin for rebuilding significant lives and discovering either defense and freedom.

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