Shackleton's Stowaway
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 his toes to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: blackborow, w. perce [X], shackleton, ernest henry, survival, stowaways [X], adventure and adventurers, historical fiction, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, antarctica, endurance (ship), imperial trans-antarctic expedition, adventure fiction, adventure stories, castaways