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Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
184 pp.
| Houghton |
October, 2001 |
TradeISBN 0-618-00271-5$$18.00
(2)
YA
In explaining how repeated years of blighted crops decimated Ireland's huge subsistence class, Bartoletti draws on an impressive array of sources to give faces and names to those who suffered and to those in positions of influence in Ireland and England. Added materials include a map, time line, and discussion of sources. Numerous archival prints add haunting evidence. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Margaret A. Bush
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2002