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Three Famines
- Narrated by: Peter Byrne
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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Summary
This is the story of three terrible famines. The first is an Gorta Mór, the great hunger of Ireland, which began in 1846. The second is the deadly famine that struck Bengal in 1943. The third is the Ethiopian famine, which first sprung up in lethal form in the 1970s under Emperor Haile Selassie and then reappeared under the brutal dictator Mengistu in the 1980s. Keneally visited Eritrea in 1984 to see the effects of this grave event. Tom Keneally shares these three shocking histories with his customary penetrating wisdom, and he presents a controversial theory in his utterly compelling narrative: in all three famines, ideology, mindsets of governments, racial preconceptions and administrative incompetence were, ultimately, more lethal than the initiating blights, the loss of potatoes or rice or the grain named teff.
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- Mister Peridot
- 29-09-14
Important account of a terrible subject
Famine is something we should all be much more aware of and this book explains in detail 3 particular famines, the Irish potato famine, the Bengal famine during WW2 and the famines in Ethiopa and NE Africa of the late 20th century. Author covers medical, agricultural and political aspects of each famine and highlights common failings that lead to each disaster and which failed to relieve them. An important and well presented book.
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- Rae McGrath
- 31-01-21
Sounds like a computer reader
Sounds like a software programme has been used to narrate this - the voice is robotic and the pronunciation are comically awful. It's impossible to listen to, even for research reasons. An excellent book made unlistenable, I feel ripped off - does no-one actually check the narration quality before acceptance?
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