Shackleton's Stowaway /
McKernan, Victoria. 1957- , author.
Shackleton's Stowaway / Victoria McKernan. - New York : Laurel-Leaf, 2006, c2005. - 317 pages ; 18 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
RL: 5.9
0440419840 9780440419846
2004010313
Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 --Fiction.
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 --Fiction.
Endurance (Ship)--Fiction.
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) --Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Stowaways--Fiction.
Adventure and adventurers--Fiction.
Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--Fiction.
FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General.
FICTION / Action & Adventure.
F MCK
Shackleton's Stowaway / Victoria McKernan. - New York : Laurel-Leaf, 2006, c2005. - 317 pages ; 18 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
RL: 5.9
0440419840 9780440419846
2004010313
Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 --Fiction.
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 --Fiction.
Endurance (Ship)--Fiction.
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) --Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Stowaways--Fiction.
Adventure and adventurers--Fiction.
Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--Fiction.
FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / General.
FICTION / Action & Adventure.
F MCK