Shackleton's stowaway

Titre
Shackleton's stowaway

Victoria. McKernan

Sommaire
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.

Date de publication comme intervalle
2005

Description matérielle
317 p. ; 22 cm.

Note locale
Young Reader's Choice 2008

Vedette-matière - nom de personne
Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949-Fiction.
 
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922-Fiction.

Vedette-matière - nom collectif
Endurance (Ship) -- Fiction.

Sujet de conférence
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) : -- Fiction :

Terme de vedette-matière
Survival -- Fiction.
 
Stowaways -- Fiction.
 
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc -- Fiction.
 
Adventure stories.

Terme géographique
Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction.

Résumé
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.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9780375826917

Informations de publication
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2005.


BibliothèqueNuméro de rayonType de documentCode à barres du documentStatut
Institutional Services SchoolsFIC MCKBook30706000202594Kennedale Fiction
Institutional Services SchoolsFIC MCKBook30706000325585Highwood Fiction