Famines and Shipwrecks

Famines

✍ Amartya Sen 📂 Article 📅 1980 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 1007 KB

✍ Keneally, Thomas 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Random House Australia 🌐 English ⚖ 247 KB

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 u

Three Famines

✍ Thomas Keneally 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 PublicAffairs 🌐 English ⚖ 233 KB 👁 2 views

Through the lens of three of the most devastating food crises in modern history--the Gorta Mor of British-ruled Ireland, the great famine of British-ruled Bengal in 1943, and the string of famines that plagued Ethiopia during the 1970s and 1980s, Booker Prize-winning author Thomas Keneally vividly e

Shipwrecks

✍ Yoshimura, Akira 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Canongate Books 🌐 English ⚖ 140 KB

An evocative historical novel with a sting in the tail, Shipwrecks is set in medieval Japan; in a coastal village where a father sells himself into indentured servitude to save his family from starvation. He leaves the responsibility for the family's continuing survival with his nine year old son Is

Shipwrecks

✍ Akira Yoshimura 📂 Fiction 📅 2009;2017 🏛 Canongate Books 🌐 English ⚖ 101 KB 👁 2 views

An evocative historical novel with a sting in the tail, Shipwrecks is set in medieval Japan; in a coastal village where a father sells himself into indentured servitude to save his family from starvation. He leaves the responsibility for the family's continuing survival with his nine year old son Is

Shipwrecks

✍ Yoshimura, Akira; Ealey, Mark 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Canongate Books 🌐 English ⚖ 94 KB

An evocative historical novel with a sting in the tail, Shipwrecks is set in medieval Japan; in a coastal village where a father sells himself into indentured servitude to save his family from starvation. He leaves the responsibility for the family's continuing survival with his nine year old son Is