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.
Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
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Institutional Services Schools | FIC MCK | Book | 30706000202594 | Kennedale Fiction |
Institutional Services Schools | FIC MCK | Book | 30706000325585 | Highwood Fiction |