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The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica / Laurie Gwen Shapiro.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781476753867 : HRD
  • ISBN: 1476753865 : HRD
  • Physical Description: 239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York ; Simon & Schuster, 2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue -- The Golden Door -- Good Men Should Apply -- The City of New York -- The Triumph of the Century -- South Pole or Bust -- First Ice -- The Stowaway Report -- Fine Enough -- Great Depression -- Epilogue.
Subject: Antarctica > Description and travel.
Gawronski, Billy, 1910-1981 > Travel > Antarctica.
Stowaways > Antarctica > Biography.
Ocean travel > History > 20th century.
Adventure and adventurers > Antarctica > Biography.
Teenage boys > New York (State) > New York > Biography.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at GRPL.

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0 current holds with 2 total copies.

Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Madison Square 919.8904 Sh22s (Text) 31307023187976 Non Fiction Available -
Main 919.8904 Sh22s (Text) 31307023187984 Non Fiction Available -

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The Stowaway : A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
The Stowaway : A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
by Shapiro, Laurie Gwen
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The Stowaway : A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica


The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica. It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great War was over and American optimism was higher than the stock market. What better moment to launch an expedition to Antarctica, the planet's final frontier? There wouldn't be another encounter with an unknown this magnificent until Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon. Everyone wanted in on the adventure. Rockefellers and Vanderbilts begged to be taken along as mess boys, and newspapers across the globe covered the planning's every stage. And then, the night before the expedition's flagship set off, Billy Gawronski--a mischievous, first-generation New York City high schooler desperate to escape a dreary future in the family upholstery business--jumped into the Hudson River and snuck aboard. Could he get away with it? From the soda shops of New York's Lower East Side to the dance halls of sultry Francophone Tahiti, all the way to Antarctica's blinding white and deadly freeze, Laurie Gwen Shapiro's The Stowaway takes you on the unforgettable voyage of a plucky young stowaway who became a Jazz Age celebrity, a mascot for an up-by-your bootstraps era.

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