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Author:

McKernan, Victoria.

Title:

Shackleton's stowaway / by Victoria McKernan.

Publisher:

Laurel-Leaf Books,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

317 p. : maps ; 18 cm.

Subject:

Blackborow, W. Perce,--1894-1949--Juvenile fiction.
Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--Juvenile fiction.
Shackleton, Ernest Henry,--Sir,--1874-1922--Juvenile fiction.
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition--(1914-1917)--Juvenile fiction.
Endurance (Ship)--Juvenile fiction.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.--Juvenile fiction.
Stowaways--Juvenile fiction.
Blackborow, W. Perce,--1894-1949--Fiction.
Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--Fiction.
Shackleton, Ernest Henry,--Sir,--1874-1922--Fiction.
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition--(1914-1917)--Fiction.
Endurance (Ship)--Fiction.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.--Fiction.
Stowaways--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Adventure fiction.

Contents:

Shackleton's stowaway -- Map -- Author's note -- Epilogue -- Sources -- Timeline - Members of the expedition -- Further reading.

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
0440419840

Locations:

CUPC586 -- Columbus Junction Public Library (Columbus Junction)