The famine ships : the Irish exodus to America, 1846-51
Laxton, Edward1996
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Between 1846 and 1851 more than a million Irish people, the famine emigrants, sailed to America. The world has not seen such an exodus before or since. Laxton tells the stories of those who made new lives for themselves, among them Henry Ford's father.
Main title:
The famine ships : the Irish exodus to America, 1846-51 / Edward Laxton.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 1996.
Collation:
vi, 250p., [16]p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), facsims. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.Maps on lining papers.
ISBN:
9780747525356 (hbk)
Dewey class:
325.24150973325.2415La(358)973.621
Local class:
325.2415La(358)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
321408