Who was Ernest Shackleton? / James Buckley Jr. ; [illustrated by] Max Hergenrother.

By:

Buckley, James [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Who was ...? | Who was--?Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap, [2013]Description: 103 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:

9780448479316 (pbk.)
0448479311 (pbk.)
9781480639164 (Paw Prints)
1480639168 (Paw Prints)

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DDC classification:

919.89 B 23

LOC classification:

G875.S5 B83 2013

Summary: "As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made him one of the most famous explorers of modern times. His courage in the face of dangerous conditions and unforeseeable tragedies reveal the great leader that he was. His historic 1914 journey aboard the Endurance has all the drama of an action movie"--

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Riverfield Country Day School EZ Biography	EZ BIO Sha (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		RCDS645

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"As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made him one of the most famous explorers of modern times. His courage in the face of dangerous conditions and unforeseeable tragedies reveal the great leader that he was. His historic 1914 journey aboard the Endurance has all the drama of an action movie"--

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