SHACKLETON'S STOWAWAY
On October 26, 1914, Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance set sail from Buenos Aires in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in exploration: the crossing of the Antarctic continent. Eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow is crouched below deck in a cramped locker. For two long days as the Endurance rolled and pitched, Perce’s head spun. He’d actually done it. Stowed away. What was the worst that could happen now? But the worst that could happen was beyond Perce’s imagining.

Within five months, the Endurance was trapped and crushed by ice. And as Perce, the youngest member of the stranded crew, watched her sink, even he knew there was no hope of rescue. The men would have to survive on their own in the most hostile place on earth, with little equipment and hardly any food.

Victoria McKernan blends thrilling storytelling with meticulous research in a survival novel based on the true story of Perce Blackborow and the Endurance crew’s death-defying voyage to the South Pole.

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Germany - Dressler
U.S. - Knopf