Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission

by Stephen Puleo

Book Overview

"Puleo has found a new way to tell the story with this well-researched and splendidly written chronicle of the Jamestown, its captain, and an Irish priest who ministered to the starving in Cork city...Puleo's tale, despite the hardship to come, surely is a tribute to the better angels of America's nature, and in that sense, it couldn't be more timely." --The Wall Street Journal

The remarkable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250200474
• ISBN13: 9781250200471
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.5"