Shackleton's stowaway, Victoria McKernan
Type
Label
Shackleton's stowaway, Victoria McKernan
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Shackleton's stowaway
Oclc number
55671655
Responsibility statement
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
Target audience
pre adolescent
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Stowaways -- Fiction
- Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile fiction
- Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 -- Juvenile fiction
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Fiction
- Endurance (Ship) -- Fiction
- Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 -- Fiction
- Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
- Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
- Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 -- Fiction
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Subject10
- Stowaways -- Fiction
- Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile fiction
- Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 -- Juvenile fiction
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Fiction
- Endurance (Ship) -- Fiction
- Blackborow, W. Perce, 1894-1949 -- Fiction
- Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
- Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
- Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 -- Fiction
- Content1
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