A feature at the end of the book gives brief biographical sketches of many famous Americans of Irish background. It’s filled with facts and true-to-life details of the O’Connor family’s journey on the famine ship Dunbrody. This volume is designed in a form to suggest Michael’s scrapbook.

The story is told from the point of view of Michael O’Connor, a nine-year-old boy who, with his family, endures many hardships before arriving in America. This book’s imaginative use of paper engineering shows household interiors in an Irish country village, a typical sailing ship that carried Irish from their homeland, and other fascinating details that illustrate nineteenth-century Irish life. Life on a Famine Ship: A Journal of the Irish Famine 1845-1850 0 by Duncan Crosbie, Brian Lee, Peter Bull Studios Hardcover £8.11 More Buying Choices £8.11 (6 Used & New offers) ( 2 ) 'Titanic': The Ship of Dreams 3 by Ken Geist, Duncan Crosbie, Sheila Mortimer, Bob Moulder Hardcover £6. Seeking a better life, those who could make the journey fled to America, Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand. Here, in words and pictures-including imaginative pop-up illustrations-is the story of the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, and the resulting hardship that caused widespread death and eventual emigration of thousands of Irish from their homeland. Find books like Life on a Famine Ship: A Journal of the Irish Famine 1845-1850 from the world’s largest community of readers. Duncan Crosbie really liked it 4.00 Rating details 13 ratings 3 reviews Here, in words and pictures-including imaginative pop-up illustrations-is the story of the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, and the resulting hardship that caused widespread death and eventual emigration of thousands of Irish from their homeland.

Life on a Famine Ship by Duncan Crosbie