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Shackleton's stowaway  Cover Image Book Book

Shackleton's stowaway / Victoria McKernan.

McKernan, Victoria (Author).

Summary:

A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of the toes of his left foot to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice.

Item details

  • ISBN: 0375826912
  • ISBN: 9780375826917
  • ISBN: 0375926917
  • ISBN: 9780375926914
  • Physical Description: 317 p. : map ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Knopf : 2005.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Shackleton's stowaway -- Map -- Author's note -- Epilogue -- Sources -- Timeline - Members of the expedition -- Further reading.
Subject: Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 > Juvenile fiction.
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 > Juvenile fiction.
Endurance (Ship) > Juvenile fiction.
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) > Juvenile fiction.
Survival > Juvenile fiction.
Stowaways > Juvenile fiction.
Adventure and adventurers > Fiction.
Antarctica > Discovery and exploration > Juvenile fiction.

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  • 2 out of 4 copies are currently available at PINES.
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