All Standing : The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, The Legendary Irish Famine Ship (Paperback)

from muddyboy

This is a compact history (just over 200 pages) about the Irish potato famine focusing on the people who attempted to leave the island and the "coffin ships" they sailed on because of the high death rates. One boat is featured, the Jeanie Johnston, which had a stellar record of getting people to ...

from jimnicol

Told with the sweep and drive of a novel, All Standing is the true tale of a particular "coffin ship", as those sailing ships transporting families fleeing (or sent from) the great Irish famine of the early eighteen hundreds for Canada were called. The Jeanie Johnston's claim to fame was that she...

from canavanmarchese94

Great book that gives the reader a real sense of the disease and conditions that immigrants lived when traveling the ocean to America.

from muddyboy

This is a compact history (just over 200 pages) about the Irish potato famine focusing on the people who attempted to leave the island and the "coffin ships" they sailed on because of the high death rates. One boat is featured, the Jeanie Johnston, which had a stellar record of getting people to ...

from jimnicol

Told with the sweep and drive of a novel, All Standing is the true tale of a particular "coffin ship", as those sailing ships transporting families fleeing (or sent from) the great Irish famine of the early eighteen hundreds for Canada were called. The Jeanie Johnston's claim to fame was that she...