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<em>Strangers and Pilgrims</em> is first and foremost a photo documentation of colony life of Low German-speaking Mennonites in Latin America with accompanying commentary. With volumes published in German and English, <em>Strangers and Pilgrim</em>’s main audience is Low German-speaking Mennonites in Latin America and their diaspora communities in Canada and the United States. It is patterned after its bilingual forbearer <em>Gäste und Fremdlinge/Strangers and Pilgrims</em> (1987), also published by <em>Die Mennonitische Post</em>, yet it has some marked differences. Volume I was almost entirely photographs with captions, whereas Volume II includes considerable amounts of text. Volume I focused on the history of colonies and Mennonite settlements in Latin America, and <em>Strangers and Pilgrims</em>, in Giesbrecht’s words, “provides insight into life in the newer colonies” (p. 5). [First paragraph]