You wouldn't want to sail on an Irish famine ship! : a trip across the Atlantic you'd rather not make

Titre
You wouldn't want to sail on an Irish famine ship! : a trip across the Atlantic you'd rather not make

Jim, Pipe

Sommaire
Describes the potato famine that struck Ireland in the 1840s, and discusses what life was like on the ships that the Irish took to America in order to escape the famine.

Sail on an Irish famine ship

Date de publication comme intervalle
2008

You wouldn't want to

Description matérielle
32 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 25 cm.

Note générale
Includes index and glossary.

Table des matières
Before the famine -- The workhouse -- The great hunger -- Get out! -- The famine ship -- Bon voyage -- Staying alive -- Stormy weather -- Iceberg! -- The "coffin ships" -- The island of death -- Journey's end.

Terme de vedette-matière
Irish Americans -- History. -- 19th century.
 
Immigrants -- United States -- History. -- 19th century.
 
Famines -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
 
Ocean travel -- History -- 19th century.

Terme géographique
Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852.
 
United States -- Immigration and emigration -- History. -- 19th century.
 
Ireland -- Immigration and emigration -- History -- 19th century.

Vedette secondaire auteur
Antram, David, 1958-

Résumé
Describes the potato famine that struck Ireland in the 1840s, and discusses what life was like on the ships that the Irish took to America in order to escape the famine.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9780531139134
 
9780531148549

Informations de publication
New York : Franklin Watts, c2008.


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