Shackleton's stowaway

Title
Shackleton's stowaway

Personal Author EPSB
Victoria. McKernan

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.

Year Published
2005

Physical Description
317 p. ; 22 cm.

Note (Local)
Young Reader's Choice 2008

Personal Subject
Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949-Fiction.
 
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922-Fiction.

Corporate Subject
Endurance (Ship) -- Fiction.

Conference Subject
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) : -- Fiction :

Subject
Survival -- Fiction.
 
Stowaways -- Fiction.
 
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc -- Fiction.
 
Adventure stories.

Geographic Term
Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction.

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.

ISBN
9780375826917

Publisher
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2005.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Institutional Services SchoolsFIC MCKBook30706000202594Kennedale Fiction
Institutional Services SchoolsFIC MCKBook30706000325585Highwood Fiction