Shackleton's stowaway
By: Victoria McKernan
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House; Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780375826917; 9780375926914
Subjects: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917); Endurance (Ship); Adventure and adventurers; Stowaways; Juvenile fiction; Discovery and exploration; Survival; Fiction
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Shackleton's stowaway; title: Map; title: Author's note; title: Epilogue; title: Sources; title: Timeline - Members of the expedition; title: Further reading.