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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2005
Descripción física
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317 p. ; 22 cm.
Nota local
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Young Reader's Choice 2008
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 -- Fiction.
Stowaways -- Fiction.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc -- Fiction.
Adventure stories.
Término geográfico
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Antarctica -- Discovery and 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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9780375826917
Información de publicación
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New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2005.
| Biblioteca | Signatura topográfica | Tipo de material | Código de barras del documento | Estado |
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| Institutional Services Schools | FIC MCK | Book | 30706000202594 | Kennedale Fiction |
| Institutional Services Schools | FIC MCK | Book | 30706000325585 | Highwood Fiction |