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
2006

Physical Description
317 p. : maps ; 18 cm.

Program Information
Accelerated Reader MG 4.8 12.0 86105
 
Gr. 7+
 
YRCA 2008

Awards
YRCA 2008 Senior Division Nominee

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 after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc -- Fiction.
 
Adventure stories.
 
Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
 
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction.
 
Survival -- Fiction.
 
Adventure fiction.
 
Stowaways -- Fiction.
 
Historical fiction.

Geographic Term
Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction.
 
Antarctica -- 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
9780440419846

Publisher
New York : Laurel-Leaf Books, [2006].


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
KameyosekF MCKBook30239000040046Fiction