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August gale, a father and daughter's journey into the storm, Barbara Walsh

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August gale, a father and daughter's journey into the storm, Barbara Walsh
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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autobiography
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platesmapsillustrations
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
August gale
Nature of contents
bibliography
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711045881
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Barbara Walsh
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a father and daughter's journey into the storm
Summary
Author Barbara Walsh tells three related true stories: that of the catastrophic 1935 hurricane that took the lives of 40 Newfoundland fishermen including her great-uncle "Paddy" Walsh and several of her cousins; the story of her grandfather Ambrose Walsh who emigrated from Newfoundland to New York to start and later abandon his own family; and, finally, the story of the effect that Ambrose's actions had on her father Ronald, her uncle William Patrick (the namesake of the drowned fisherman) and their mother
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