Description
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. The crew stood on deck to watch the city fade away. All but one. Eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow crouched below 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? Perce knew the legendary explorer would be furious, but he wouldn't turn the ship around just to put him off. But the worst that could happen was beyond Perce's-or any of the men's-imagining. Within five months, the Endurance was trapped and crushed by the ice. As Perce Blackborow, the youngest member of the stranded crew, watched her sink, he shivered with more than the bitter cold. If the men were to survive here in the most hostile place on earth, with little equipment and hardly any food, they would have to do it all on their own. 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. Book jacket.
