- Published: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2005.
- Year Published: 2005
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Description: 317 p. ; 22 cm.
- Language: English
- Format: Book
ISBN/Standard Number
- 0375926917 :
Subjects
- Blackborow, W. Perce, -- 1894-1949 -- Fiction.
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry, -- Sir, -- 1874-1922 -- Fiction.
- Endurance (Ship) -- Fiction.
- Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition -- (1914-1917) -- Fiction.
- Survival -- Fiction.
- Stowaways -- Fiction.
- Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
- Antarctica -- Fiction. -- Discovery and exploration
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Call number: Teen Fiction
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Youth level.
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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