dee jay publications arklow (5 resultados)

Condición: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. The story of a group of 1000 people from Wicklow & Wexford who left in 1850 to found an Irish Catholic colony in Arkansas. Corner of front cover slightly worn. Used - Very Good. VG paperback.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Reprint of First Edition. pp169. Light volume - shipping charge will be reduced at processing stage. 'Born in a dockside tavern in Wicklow town, Robert Halpin began his seafaring career at the age of eleven. Unafraid of danger, particularly when potential profit outweighed risks involved, he ran supplies to the Confederate ports in the American Civil War. His greatest days at sea were as Commander of the largest ship on earth, the SSS Great Eastern. He laid 26,000 miles of cable linking four continents with telegraphic communication, making himself a fortune in the process. This book is based mainly on Halpin's private papers.' Light crease to front cover - otherwise very good.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 2nd Edition. 184 pages. Illustrated. 210x135mm. Original pictorial card covers, The eventful life of the Irish mariner Robert Halpin (1836-1894) who ran supplies to Confederate ports in the American Civil War and captained the "Great Eastern". *** This is the second, revised and enlarged edition. *** A fine copy without any damage, library stamps, inscriptions or other markings.

Soft cover. Condición: New. First Thus. This new copy is bound in illustrated card covers as issued. The contents are bright, tight, white and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. A remarkable, human?centred history of one of the most unusual Irish emigration stories of the 19th century. It tells the extraordinary true story of over 1,000 people from counties Wicklow and Wexford who left Ireland in 1850?not as desperate refugees fleeing the Great Famine, but as part of a planned, organised attempt to establish an Irish Catholic colony in Arkansas in the American Midwest. This makes the book unusual among famine?era histories: it focuses not on catastrophe, but on agency, organisation, and the hope of building a new community. Ref S 2.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine condition. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine jacket. 2000 edition (hardcover). Arklow, Co. Wicklow, Ireland: Dee-Jay Publications, 2000. FINE condition in a NEAR FINE dust jacket (the DJ would also be FINE but for one crease to its front inner flap. NO chips. NO tears. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. This is the 2000 hardcover reprint edition. [NOTE: The 1992 original was issued in paperback]. 19 illustrations. List of chapter notes/sources. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original blue leatherette (imitation leather), lettered in shiny gold on the spine and front cover. From the Dust Jacket: "Robert Halpin began his seafaring career at the age of eleven. Unafraid of danger, particularly when potential profit outweighed risks involved, he ran supplies to the Confederate ports in the American Civil War. His greatest days at sea were as Commander of the largest ship on earth, the SS 'Great Eastern.' He laid 26,000 miles of cable linking four continents with telegraphic communication, making himself a fortune in the process. This book is based mainly on Halpin's private papers. Other archives. have also been consulted for the first time.". 2000 edition (hardcover). Hard Cover. Fine condition/Near Fine jacket. 169pp.