The Famine Ships - The Irish Exodus to America 1846-51 by Laxton, Edward - 1997

New York: Henry Holt, 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition.. Stated First American Edition (and first printing, with complete number line) in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean blue boards with bright silver lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean map-illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with full color plates, black & white illustrations. 250 pages with index. Clean jacket is as-new, no chips, no tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Between 1846 and 1851, more than one million people--the famine immigrants--sailed from Ireland to America. Never before had the world witnessed such an exodus. The Famine Ships tells the story of courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships to make new lives for themselves, among them the child Henry Ford and twenty-six-year-old Patrick Kennedy, great-grandfather of John F. Kennedy..