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.
year: 2005, 2006
call number/section: 1000
subjects: blackborow, w. perce, 1894-1949, fiction, shackleton, ernest henry, sir, 1874-1922, survival, fiction, stowaways, adventure and adventurers, historical fiction, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, antarctica, discovery and exploration, fiction, exploration, juvenile fiction, juvenile fiction, endurance (ship), fiction, imperial trans-antarctic expedition, (1914-1917), adventure fiction, adventure stories, castaways
Editions
McKernan, Victoria
Distributed by Random House (2005)
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.
Schools: 10
McKernan, Victoria
Laurel-Leaf (2006)
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.
Schools: 1
McKernan, Victoria
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.
Schools: 0