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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Shapiro, Laurie Gwen, author.     Subjects     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.     Antarctica -- Description and travel.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Shapiro, Laurie Gwen, author.       by title:      The stowaway : a you...         MARC Display

The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica / Laurie Gwen Shapiro. by Shapiro, Laurie Gwen, author. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018. Subjects 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.   Antarctica -- Description and travel. ISBN:  9781476753867 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) 1476753865 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) Description:  239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm Edition:  First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 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. Requests:  0 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. 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? This was the moon landing before the 1960s. Everyone wanted to join the adventure. Rockefellers and Vanderbilts begged to be taken along as mess boys, and newspapers across the globe covered the planning's every stage. 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. Could he get away with it? From the grimy streets of New York's Lower East Side to the rowdy 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 gutsy young stowaway who became an international celebrity, a mascot for an up-by-your bootstraps age.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hanapepe Public Library Adult Nonfiction 919.8904 Shapiro Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 919.8904 Shapiro Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 919.8904 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 919.8904 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 919.8904 Shapiro Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 919.8904 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mountain View P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 919.8904 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Nanakuli Public Library Adult Nonfiction 919.8904 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waimea Public Library (Kauai) Adult Nonfiction 919.8904 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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