Ship fever /
By: Barrett, Andrea.
Publisher: London : Flamingo, 2000Description: 254 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780007292813; 9780007292813:; 0007292813.Subject(s): Historical fiction | Scientists -- Fiction | American fiction -- 20th century | Historical fiction, American | Famines -- Ireland | Quarantine -- Canada | Isolation (Hospital care) -- Canada | Emigration and immigration -- Ireland -- Fiction | Marteau, Great Isle of (Québec) -- FictionDDC classification: 808.8381 Awards: Winner of the U.S. National Book Award in 1996.Summary: Set in the 19th century, this collection of short fiction takes its impulse from the world of science. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, it illuminates the secret passion of those driven by a devotion to the natural world.Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 808.8381 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0082870 | ||
Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 808.8381 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 2 | Available | 0082872 | ||
Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 808.8381 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 3 | Available | 0082871 |
First published in 1996.
Set in the 19th century, this collection of short fiction takes its impulse from the world of science. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, it illuminates the secret passion of those driven by a devotion to the natural world.
Winner of the U.S. National Book Award in 1996.