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_bS53 2018
100 1 _aShapiro, Laurie Gwen,
_eauthor
245 1 4 _aThe stowaway :
_ba young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica /
_cLaurie Gwen Shapiro
250 _aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
264 1 _aNew York :
_bSimon & Schuster,
_c2018
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-224) and index
505 0 _aThe 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
520 _aThe 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
600 1 0 _aGawronski, Billy,
_d1910-1981
_xTravel
_zAntarctica
650 0 _aStowaways
_zAntarctica
_vBiography
650 0 _aOcean travel
_xHistory
_y20th century
650 0 _aAdventure and adventurers
_zAntarctica
_vBiography
650 0 _aTeenage boys
_zNew York (State)
_zNew York
_vBiography
651 0 _aAntarctica
_xDescription and travel
655 4 _aTrue adventure stories
655 7 _aTravel writing.
_2lcgft
655 7 _aBiographies.
_2lcgft
655 7 _aTrue adventure stories.
_2lcgft
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aShapiro, Laurie Gwen.
_tStowaway.
_bFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
_dNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2018
_z9781476753881
_w(DLC) 2017010926
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