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The great hunger, by Cecil Woodham-Smith

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The great hunger, by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Language
eng
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Main title
The great hunger
Medium
electronic resource
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Oclc number
739692546
Responsibility statement
by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Summary
The Great Hunger is the story of one of the worst disasters in world history: the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. Within five years, one million people died of starvation. Emigrants by the hundreds of thousands sailed for America and Canada in small, ill-equipped, dangerously unsanitary ships. Some ships never arrived; those that did carried passengers already infected with and often dying of typhus..
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general
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