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    All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, The Legendary Irish Famine Ship
    All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, The Legendary Irish Famine Ship
    All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, The Legendary Irish Famine Ship
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    All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, The Legendary Irish Famine Ship

    By Kathryn Miles

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    All Standing The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship recounts the journeys of this famous ship, her heroic crew, and the immigrants who were ferried between Ireland and North America. Spurred by a complex web of motivations—shame, familial obligation, and sometimes even greed—more than a million people attempted to flee the Irish famine. More than one hundred thousand of them would die aboard one of the five thousand aptly named “coffin ships.” But in the face of horrific losses, a small ship named the Jeanie Johnston never lost a passenger. Shipwright John Munn, community leader Nicholas Donovan, Captain James Attridge, Dr. Richard Blennerhassett, and the efforts of a remarkable crew allowed thousands of people to find safety and fortune throughout the United States and Canada.

    Why did these individuals succeed when so many others failed? What prompted them to act, when so many people preferred to do nothing—or worse? Using newspaper accounts, rare archival documents, and her own experience sailing as an apprentice aboard the recently re-created Jeanie Johnston, Kathryn Miles tells the story of these extraordinary people and the revolutionary milieu in which they set sail. The tale of each individual is remarkable in and of itself; read collectively, their stories paint a unique portrait of bravery in the face of a new world order. Theirs is a story of ingenuity and even defiance, one that recounts a struggle to succeed, to shake the mantle of oppression and guilt, to endure in the face of unimaginable hardship. On more than one occasion, stewards of the ship would be accused of acting out of self-interest or greed. Nevertheless, what these men—and their ship—accomplished over the course of eleven voyages to North America was the stuff of legend.

    Interwoven in their tale is the story of Nicholas Reilly, a baby boy born on the ship’s maiden voyage. The Reilly family climbed aboard the Jeanie Johnston in search of the American Dream. While they would find some version of that dream, it would not be without a struggle—one that would deposit Nicholas into a deeply controversial moment in American history. Against this backdrop, Miles weaves a thrilling, intimate narrative, chronicling the birth of a remarkable Irish-American family in the face of one of the planet’s greatest human rights atrocities.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFree Press
    Release dateJan 8, 2013
    ISBN9781451610161
    All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, The Legendary Irish Famine Ship
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    Kathryn Miles

    Kathryn Miles is a professor of environmental writing at Unity College. She is the author of Adventures With Ari and dozens of articles that have appeared in publications, including Alimentum, Best American Essays, Ecotone, Flyway, Meatpaper, and Terrain. She lives—and sails—in Belfast, Maine.

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    • 4/5
      Great book that gives the reader a real sense of the disease and conditions that immigrants lived when traveling the ocean to America.
    • 5/5
      Told with the sweep and drive of a novel, All Standing is the true tale of a particular "coffin ship", as those sailing ships transporting families fleeing (or sent from) the great Irish famine of the early eighteen hundreds for Canada were called. The Jeanie Johnston's claim to fame was that she never lost a passenger, at a time when typhus and cholera, storms at sea and crowded, inhumane accommodations both during the crossing and upon arrival were claiming tragic numbers of lives on similar ships. This unmatched success and the reasons for it are the framework Kathryn Miles uses to give us a unique and gritty view of a shameful period of British (and Irish) history. Miles also follows, in a series of flash-aheads inserted at intervals, the experience of one such transported family after their arrival in Canada and subsequent migration to America; a very effective and imaginative way to further personalize the story. As someone descended from Irish immigrants to Canada during that same period, I learned a lot about what my ancestors might have experienced, while at the same time enjoying a very engaging and well-told narrative. Highly recommended!
    • 5/5
      This is a compact history (just over 200 pages) about the Irish potato famine focusing on the people who attempted to leave the island and the "coffin ships" they sailed on because of the high death rates. One boat is featured, the Jeanie Johnston, which had a stellar record of getting people to North America safely. The captain and his physician were able to avoid the ravages of shipwreck and also cholera and other diseases which were the scourge of other boats.. I think this book would appeal to both historian and casual reader alike because it is well researched but also has a human interest aspect to it.

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