A sea of sorrows : the typhus epidemic diary of Johanna Leary
Book |
Scholastic Canada,
Toronto :
2012.
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About
"In the midst of the Irish famine, Johanna flees one disaster - only to land in another. After a massive potato famine strikes Ireland, thirteen-year-old Johanna Leary flees to Canada with her family. But typhus and other illnesses plague the 'coffin ships,' so named for the staggering number of immigrants who died enroute. One by one Johanna loses the members of her family - first her baby brother on the journey over, then her mother in the Grosse Isle fever sheds where sick passengers are quarantined w
Details
- ISBN: 9781443107105 (hc.)
- Physical Description: 169 p. : ill., map.print
- Publisher: Toronto : Scholastic Canada, 2012.
- General Note: Includes historical notes."Ireland to Canada East, 1847"--Cover.