Author: Marolyn Diver
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473184667
Category : Canterbury (N.Z.)
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The story of the clipper ship Clontarf: In her short career the Clontarf made only two journeys to New Zealand between 1858-1860; introducing just under 800 emigrants to Canterbury. But before she slipped beneath the North Atlantic ocean she carried with her the unfortunate infamy of accumulating the worst human fatality from illness alone in a single voyage. Using shipboard diaries, official documentation, shipping lists and the combined information from the descendants of Clontarf passengers themselves, this is an informative and in-depth record of the ship and her journeys.
The Pirates of Clontarf
Author: Mary Ann Hart
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483670333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Polly O'Brien is a girl of twelve who is desperately trying to save her father from the clutches of alcoholism. While attending Catholic school in the 1950s, she aspires to write and figure out life's mysteries without much guidance. Experiencing a frightening existence, she escapes by writing a book with the help of a ghost. Polly is visited by a spirit as she begins to pen a tale about the Irish Potato Famine. The apparition helps her to create by relating her own Famine story, and offers some advice. Dailearie O'Donovan, the visitation, tells of her adventures during the Famine in Ireland. By pirating and taking grain to county Mayo where their relatives previously died, she and her brothers hope to be the hand of God's bounty. This narrative describes coming of age before the era of information and the Internet, and the horrors of An Gorta Mór, The Great Hunger. It recounts the real difficulties that are often experienced by children and adults alike that have lived with someone suffering from alcoholism. Both the spirit and the very young author eventually find solutions to the devastating problems they both encounter
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483670333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Polly O'Brien is a girl of twelve who is desperately trying to save her father from the clutches of alcoholism. While attending Catholic school in the 1950s, she aspires to write and figure out life's mysteries without much guidance. Experiencing a frightening existence, she escapes by writing a book with the help of a ghost. Polly is visited by a spirit as she begins to pen a tale about the Irish Potato Famine. The apparition helps her to create by relating her own Famine story, and offers some advice. Dailearie O'Donovan, the visitation, tells of her adventures during the Famine in Ireland. By pirating and taking grain to county Mayo where their relatives previously died, she and her brothers hope to be the hand of God's bounty. This narrative describes coming of age before the era of information and the Internet, and the horrors of An Gorta Mór, The Great Hunger. It recounts the real difficulties that are often experienced by children and adults alike that have lived with someone suffering from alcoholism. Both the spirit and the very young author eventually find solutions to the devastating problems they both encounter
Narratives of the Voyages of Pedro Sarmiento de Gambóa to the Straits of Magellan
Author: Clements R. Markham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317090306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The volume covers the voyages of 1579-1589, translated and edited, with notes and an introduction. The supplementary material includes the 1894 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1895.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317090306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The volume covers the voyages of 1579-1589, translated and edited, with notes and an introduction. The supplementary material includes the 1894 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1895.