Title: Shackleton's stowaway
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.
Subjects: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917), Endurance (Ship), Adventure and adventurers, Stowaways, Juvenile fiction, Discovery and exploration, Survival, Fiction, Discoveries in geography, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Adventure fiction, Historical fiction, Exploration, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) sears
Places: Antarctica
People: Ernest Henry Shackleton Sir (1874-1922), W. Perce Blackborow (1894-1949)