Shackleton's stowaway
Titre
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Shackleton's stowaway
Victoria. McKernan
Sommaire
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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.
Date de publication comme intervalle
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2006
Description matérielle
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317 p. : maps ; 18 cm.
Informations sur le programme
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Accelerated Reader MG 4.8 12.0 86105
Gr. 7+
YRCA 2008
YRCA 2008 Senior Division Nominee
Vedette-matière - nom de personne
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Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949-Fiction.
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922-Fiction.
Vedette-matière - nom collectif
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Endurance (Ship) -- Fiction.
Sujet de conférence
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Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) -- Fiction.
Terme de vedette-matière
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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.
Terme géographique
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Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction.
Antarctica -- Exploration -- Fiction.
Résumé
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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.
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
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9780440419846
Informations de publication
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New York : Laurel-Leaf Books, [2006].
| Bibliothèque | Numéro de rayon | Type de document | Code à barres du document | Statut |
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| Kameyosek | F MCK | Book | 30239000040046 | Fiction |