24 records matched your query       

Author:

McKernan, Victoria.

Title:

Shackleton's stowaway / Victoria McKernan.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Distributed by Random House,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

317 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Blackborow, W. Perce,--1894-1949--Juvenile fiction.
Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--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--Fiction.
Stowaways--Fiction.
Adventure and adventurers--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:

9780375926914
0375926917
9780375826917
0375826912

LCCN:

2004010313

Locations:

DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

ZSPC475 -- Stubbs Memorial Library (Holstein) — JF

KIPB845 -- Hospers Public Library (Hospers)

JSSX094 -- Janesville School Library (Janesville)

TVPD862 -- Louise & Lucile Hink -Tama Public Library (Tama)