Shackleton's stowaway
Título
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Shackleton's stowaway
Victoria. McKernan
Resumen
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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.
Fecha de publicación como intervalo
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2006
Descripción física
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317 p. : maps ; 18 cm.
Información del programa
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Accelerated Reader MG 4.8 12.0 86105
Gr. 7+
YRCA 2008
YRCA 2008 Senior Division Nominee
Materia personal
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Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949-Fiction.
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922-Fiction.
Materia corporativa
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Endurance (Ship) -- Fiction.
Materia de conferencia
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Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) -- Fiction.
Término de la materia
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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.
Término geográfico
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Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction.
Antarctica -- Exploration -- Fiction.
Síntesis
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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
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9780440419846
Información de publicación
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New York : Laurel-Leaf Books, [2006].
| Biblioteca | Signatura topográfica | Tipo de material | Código de barras del documento | Estado |
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| Edmonton Christian West | FIC MCK | Book | 38515000254410 | Adventure Fiction |