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Major,
Kevin.
ANN AND SEAMUS
Toronto : Douglas & McIntyre,
2003
IL YA
ISBN 088899561X
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the year 1828, a horrible shipwreck occurred off the coast of Newfoundland.
There were 211 people aboard the Despatch when it went down.
Seventeen year old Ann Harvey is credited with helping to rescue 163 of
them. This is a fictionalized account of that dramatic rescue told
from the viewpoint of Ann and Seamus, a young sailor on the ship. |
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SUBJECTS:
Harvey, Ann, 1811-1860 -- Poetry.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Poetry.
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Poetry.
Despatch (Ship) -- Poetry.
Immigrants -- Poetry.
Shipwrecks -- Poetry.
Rescues -- Poetry.
Islands -- Poetry.
American poetry. |
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