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The Endurance: Shackleton's Perilous Expedition in Antarctica
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SOLVED: Children's/YA > SOLVED. Children's Picture Book based on a true story, read around 2015, ship that gets stuck in ice, a stowaway who ends up having to get his arm or leg amputated, members of the crew huddle under a small upturned boat. [s]

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bookel | 4018 comments Worldcat.org
Keywords ship stowaway
Year range 2000-2015
Limits print book, juvenile

Shackleton's Stowaway
Shackleton's stowaway
Author: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
Print Book, [2006]
English
Publisher:Laurel-Leaf Books, New York, [2006]
https://www.worldcat.org/title/73502204
Free to borrow https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15839...


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bookel | 4018 comments Oh ... 317 p. Hmmm. Must be similar books ...


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bookel | 4018 comments A picture book.

The Endurance: Shackleton's Perilous Expedition in Antarctica

Meredith Hooper
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M.P. Robertson

4.15
33 ratings5 reviews
Intrigued by the mysterious, vast continent at the bottom of the world, Sir Ernest Shackleton fearlessly led 27 men to explore Antarctica—but on their way to its shore, their ship Endurance was crushed by the relentless ice!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...


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bookel | 4018 comments Or this.

Shackleton's Journey

William Grill

4.31
1,060 ratings205 reviews
Illustrator William Grill weaves a detailed visual narrative of Shackleton’s journey to Antarctica
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...


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