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

Publication Info.

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction	919.89 SHAPIRO	Check Shelf
Bloomfield at the Atrium	919.8904 SHA	Check Shelf
Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction	919.8904 SHAPIRO	Check Shelf
Canton Public Library - Adult Department	919.8904 SHAPIRO	Check Shelf
Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level	919.8904 SHAPIRO	Check Shelf
Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department	919.8904 SHA	Lost and Paid
East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department	919.89 SHAPIRO	Check Shelf
Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department	919.8904 SHA	Check Shelf
Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	919.89 SHA	Check Shelf
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department	919.89 SHAPIRO	Check Shelf

Edition	First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description	239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note	"Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover" -- Title page verso.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-224) and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	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.
Subject	Gawronski, Billy, 1910-1981 -- Travel -- Antarctica.
	Antarctica -- Description and travel.
	Stowaways -- Antarctica -- Biography.
	Ocean travel -- History -- 20th century.
	Adventure and adventurers -- Antarctica -- Biography.
	Teenage boys -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers.
	HISTORY / Polar Regions.
	HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
Genre/Form	Travel writing.
	Biographies.
	True adventure stories.
ISBN	9781476753867 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
	1476753865 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

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