The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People

by John Kelly

Book Overview

A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great Mortality

In this masterful, comprehensive account of the Irish Potato Famine, delivered with novelistic flair, Kelly gives us not only the startling facts of this disaster--one of the worst to strike mankind, killing twice as many lives as the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250032172
• ISBN13: 9781250032171
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"