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Author Shapiro, Laurie Gwen, author. Title The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica / Laurie Gwen Shapiro. Publisher New York, New York: Simon & Schuster, c2018. Copies
ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS Ashland adult nonfiction 919.89 SHA AVAILABLE Superior adult nonfiction 919.89 Sh22s AVAILABLE Webster adult nonfiction 919.89 SHA HC AVAILABLE Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Descript 239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white photographs ; 22 cm Note Nonfiction. "Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover"--Title page verso. Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-224) and index. Contents 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. Summary "From the soda shops of New York's Lower East Side to the dance halls of sultry Fancophone 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 man who became a Jazz Age celebrity, a mascot for an up-by-your-bootstraps era." -- dust jacket. 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. Genre Biographies. ISBN/ISSN 1476753865 (hardcover) 9781476753867 (hardcover)
