McKernan, Victoria

Shackleton's stowaway / by Victoria McKernan. - New York : Laurel-Leaf, 2005. - 317

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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Blackborow, W. Perce--Fiction
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir--Fiction


Endurance (ship)--Fiction
Imperial Trans-Anartic expedition--Fiction
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.--Fiction
Stowaways--Fiction


Antarctica - Discovery and exploration--Fiction