Passage To America: A History of Emigrants From Great Britain and Ireland to America in the Mid-Nineteenth Century - Brossura

Coleman, Terry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0712654895 ISBN 13: 9780712654890

Casa editrice: Pimlico, 1992

Riassunto

In the middle years of the last century more than two million men, women and children abandoned the British Isles. The Irish were 'shovelled out' by absentee landlords and famine; the English went west to escape poverty and slums.

Sea-sick, homesick, herded like cattle, dying like flies, they poured across the Atlantic from Liverpool to New York. They were swindled, robbed, insulted and terrorized at every stage.

Making brilliant use of original diaries and letters and contemporary newspapers and prints, Terry Coleman gives us an intensely vivid account of this heroic and historic exodus.

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Recensione:

Full of bite and colour - told with wit and grace. (New York Times)

A book which stirs the imagination and remains vividly in the mind. He builds up a picture of what was surely one of the greatest stories of suffering and exploitation in the entire nineteenth century. Few readers will not find the story compulsive. (The Times Literary Supplement)

This momentous movement, so heroic in retrospect, so shabby at the time, has now found its perfect chronicler. Terry Coleman is that rare phenomenon, an absolutely original writer. (Jan Morris The Times)

L'autore:

Terry Coleman is a novelist, historian, and reporter. His novel Southern Cross, set in the early years of Australia, was a worldwide bestseller. As a reporter he has travelled in sixty countries, and in 1982 was named Feature Writer of the Year in the British Press Awards. His previous books include Olivier, Nelson: The Man and the Legend, and Empire.

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• Editore: Pimlico
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0712654895
• ISBN 13: 9780712654890
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320