The great hunger 1962
By Cecil Woodham Smith, Cecil W. Smith, Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald Woodham Smith
- History, Famines, Emigration and immigration, Nutrition
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.
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- First published
- 1962
- Pages
- 510
- Publisher
- New American Library, Readers Union, Blackstone Audiobooks
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780450051678
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“AT THE beginning of the year 1845 the state of Ireland was, as it had been for nearly seven hundred years, a source of grave anxiety to England.”
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