A Sea of Sorrows: The Typhus Epidemic Diary of Johanna Leary - Ireland to Canada East 1847

A Sea of Sorrows: The Typhus Epidemic Diary of Johanna Leary - Ireland to Canada East 1847
ISBN-10
1443107107
ISBN-13
9781443107105
Category
Ireland
Pages
176
Language
English
Published
2012-09
Publisher
Scholastic Canada
Author
Norah McClintock

Description

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 when they reach the port of Québec, and her father soon after. Johanna has only her brother Michael left when she sets foot on Canadian soil. When her brother is mistakenly told that she too has died, he sets off to find their uncle "somewhere in Canada," leaving Johanna to face a new life in a strange land... totally alone. A Sea of Sorrows captures a dreadful time in history for those desperate, impoverished Irish families who hoped to make Canada their home. Johanna's incredible journey of survival is told with insight and sensitivity by master storyteller Norah McClintock.

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