Land of Childhood, Pious Land, Land of Legends, Land with History: Max Huwyler reads his Zuger homeland with knowledge and precision. Decades of collected memories and a wealth of archival finds condense into a prose of unmistakable sound, often starting from the inconspicuous. At a train station with an unusual name, a barely visible inscription, a staircase that seems to lead to nowhere. Huwyler gets close to the historical figures - the child murderer, the fighters at the Totenhalde near Hünenberg, the factory director. He traces development lines with a keen, critical mind into the present. Thus, Max Huwyler uncovers layer by layer in an archaeology of meanings, a poetic measurement of the Zugerland that opens unexpected horizons and new expanses. "Jakob's Emigration" is a special kind of local history.