Author: Ali Tobi
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1482864126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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When Dr. Labib Mansour leaves his wife and ten-year-old son in Gambia to seek a better life in Spain, he knows its going to be a perilous journey. The ship captain warns them that many will perish during the voyage. The surviving men arrive on the new countrys shore hungry, thirsty, and in poor health. The men are jailed for illegal immigration and await to hear of their fate from the courts. During their incarceration, Mansour uses his English-speaking skills to communicate with the authorities, and he employs his medical abilities to save lives and help others. Mansour is able to escape the jail and create a new life. But he must decide where his loyalty should be placed. A fiction short story, The Emigrant Doctor in the Death Boat uses the character of Dr. Labib Mansour to address modern-day issues of immigration.
Author: Ali Al Tobi
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 1482853396
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
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The story started in the early days when oil was first discovered in USA. James Wood is a farmer living with, his wife Lora, son Steve 17 years, daughter Hilary 12 years, son David 8 years and their grandmother in a small house.
Author: Cian T. McMahon
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479820539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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Honorable Mention, Theodore Saloutos Book Award, given by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine The standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey itself. Between 1845 and 1855, over two million people fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine and begin new lives abroad. The so-called “coffin ships” they embarked on have since become infamous icons of nineteenth-century migration. The crews were brutal, the captains were heartless, and the weather was ferocious. Yet the personal experiences of the emigrants aboard these vessels offer us a much more complex understanding of this pivotal moment in modern history. Based on archival research on three continents and written in clear, crisp prose, The Coffin Ship analyzes the emigrants’ own letters and diaries to unpack the dynamic social networks that the Irish built while voyaging overseas. At every stage of the journey—including the treacherous weeks at sea—these migrants created new threads in the worldwide web of the Irish diaspora. Colored by the long-lost voices of the emigrants themselves, this is an original portrait of a process that left a lasting mark on Irish life at home and abroad. An indispensable read, The Coffin Ship makes an ambitious argument for placing the sailing ship alongside the tenement and the factory floor as a central, dynamic element of migration history.
Author: Jane Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648650300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Impeccably researched and poignantly told, Ship of Death unfurls the true saga of the 'Emigrant'. For the first time, this book reveals the human stories of some key players in the drama and brings to life a remarkable journey common to Australia's early settlers. Their stories are tales of hardship, resilience, courage, and despair.
Author: Australia. Dept. of Health
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Publisher: London : [s.n.]
ISBN:
Category : Commercial geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1774
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Author: R. Haines
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023024842X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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In this engaging tale of movement from one hemisphere to another, we see doctors at work attending to their often odious and demanding duties at sea, in quarantine, and after arrival. The book shows, in graphic detail, just why a few notorious voyages suffered tragic loss of life in the absence of competent supervision. Its emphasis, however, is on demonstrating the extent to which the professionalism of the majority of surgeon superintendents, even on ships where childhood epidemics raged, led to the extraordinary saving of life on the Australian route in the Victorian era.
Author: Ali Al Tobi
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN: 148285340X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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In early 1980 Alex Paterson visited Tanzania in East Africa looking for pure leather to export to America. He then went to Pemba Island in Zanzibar just for a short visit. While he was in the market looking around of peoples business life, their daily challenges and what they have and do not - noticed a boy fixing loose chairs by using a stone to hit a nail instead of a hammer - like other carpenters do! His hands were so red! Alex stopped and started asking the Boy some questions.
Author: William Lobscheid
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Author: Friedrich Gerstäcker
Publisher:
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Category : German fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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