Shackleton's stowaway
By: Victoria McKernan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 -- Juvenile fiction; Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 -- Fiction; Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Fiction; Endurance (Ship) -- Fiction; Survival -- Fiction; Stowaways -- Fiction; Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction; Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile fiction; Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; 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.