Shackleton's stowaway, by Victoria McKernan
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Shackleton's stowaway, by Victoria McKernan
Language
eng
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maps
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no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Shackleton's stowaway
Oclc number
73502204
Responsibility statement
by Victoria McKernan
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
Table Of Contents
Shackleton's stowaway -- Map -- Author's note -- Epilogue -- Sources -- Timeline - Members of the expedition -- Further reading
Target audience
juvenile
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Subject
- Stowaways -- Fiction
- Stowaways -- Juvenile fiction
- Historical fiction
- Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile fiction
- Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 -- Juvenile fiction
- Action and adventure fiction
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Fiction
- Survival -- Juvenile fiction
- Endurance (Ship) -- Fiction
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Juvenile fiction
- Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 -- Fiction
- Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc -- Fiction
- Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 -- Juvenile fiction
- Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction
- Endurance (Ship) -- Juvenile fiction
- Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 -- Fiction
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- Subject16
- Stowaways -- Fiction
- Stowaways -- Juvenile fiction
- Historical fiction
- Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile fiction
- Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 -- Juvenile fiction
- Action and adventure fiction
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Fiction
- Survival -- Juvenile fiction
- Endurance (Ship) -- Fiction
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Juvenile fiction
- Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 -- Fiction
- Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc -- Fiction
- Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 -- Juvenile fiction
- Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction
- Endurance (Ship) -- Juvenile fiction
- Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 -- Fiction
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