Shackleton's Stowaway
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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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Distributed by Random House, 2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: 317 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0375926917 :
SUBJECTS
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.