This book documents variously inspiring, heart-warming, humorous and cautionary stories of numerous amazing individuals who left their own countries either willingly or by force. Some of the immigrants included in this volume worked fantastically hard to immerse themselves into new cultures and languages, and as a result achieved resounding success in making their fortunes in the new countries they chose to call home. Others, however, climbed to giddy heights only to fall spectacularly from grace either through misfortune or miscalculation. From a French artist who moved to New York in the hope of exhibiting his work at the Museum of Modern Art to an Armenian businessman who moved to England to escape the horrors of his country's past; from a Greek fruit merchant who made his fortune in Turkey to an English prima ballerina who became embroiled in political turmoil in Panama, each of these immigrants teaches us something about what it means to start a new life in a foreign land.