Three famines / Tom Keneally.
Three famines / Tom Keneally.
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North Sydney, NSW : Random House Australia, 2011.
Date
2010.
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English
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1 online resource (336 pages) : maps,
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text
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computer
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online resource
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Publisher
North Sydney, NSW : Random House Australia, 2011.
Place of Publication
New South Wales
Date Published
2011.
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A standout history told with Tom Keneally panache. This is the story of three great famines. The first is an Gorta Mór, the great hunger of Ireland, which began in 1846 and whose end-date is a matter of debate. The second is the less well-known but more deadly famine that struck Bengal in 1943. The third is the Ethiopian famine, which first sprung...
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Three famines / Tom Keneally.
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3 famines
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"In the Irish, Bengali and Ethiopian famines, ideology, mindsets of governments, racial preconceptions and administrative incompetence were more lethal than the initiating blights, loss of potatoes or rice or the grain named teff."--Cover.
This edition published by Vintage in 2011. First published by Knopf in 2010.
Imprint: RHA eBooks Adult.
Includes bibliographical references and index....
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Audience: General.
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Mode of access: Available online.
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74VKVxGy3OgM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVxGy3OgM
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ISBN
9781742741345 EPUB
1742741347 EPUB
MMS ID
991024248544902626
How to access this item
National edeposit: Onsite at State Library of New South Wales
