Shackleton's stowaway

By Victoria McKernan

Subjects: Adventure fiction, Exploration, Discoveries in geography, Stowaways, Discovery and exploration, Historical fiction, Survival, Fiction, Endurance (Ship), Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917), Juvenile fiction, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) sears, Adventure and adventurers

Description: 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.