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Shackleton's stowaway

Title
Shackleton's stowaway / Victoria McKernan.
Author
McKernan, Victoria.
Publication
New York : A.A. Knopf ; Distributed by Random House, c2005.

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Description
317 p.; 22 cm.
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.
Subject
  • Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 > Fiction
  • Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 > Fiction
  • Endurance (Ship) > Fiction
  • Survival > Fiction
  • Stowaways > Fiction
  • Antarctica > Discovery and exploration
  • Antarctica > Discovery and exploration > Fiction
Genre/Form
Action and adventure fiction.
Call Number
J FIC M
ISBN
0375826912
LCCN
  • 2004010313
  • 9780375826917
OCLC
55671655
Author
McKernan, Victoria.
Title
Shackleton's stowaway / Victoria McKernan.
Imprint
New York : A.A. Knopf ; Distributed by Random House, c2005.
Other Standard Identifier
9780375826917
Research Call Number
J FIC M
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