The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica

Autor*innen

• Laurie Gwen Shapiro

Parameter

• 368 Seiten
• 13 Lesestunden

• Biografien & Memoiren
• Geschichte
• Karten & Reisen
• Reisen & Wandern
• Sachliteratur

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The 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. The night before the expedition's flagship launched, Billy Gawronski--a skinny, 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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Einband: Hardcover