The Resource The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica, Laurie Gwen Shapiro
The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica, Laurie Gwen Shapiro
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The item The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica, Laurie Gwen Shapiro represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781476753867
- Label
- The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica
- Title
- The stowaway
- Title remainder
- a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica
- Statement of responsibility
- Laurie Gwen Shapiro
- Title variation
- stowaway
- Title variation remainder
- a young mans extraordinary adventure to Antarctica
- Subject
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- trueAdventurers
- trueTeenage boys
- trueChildren of immigrants
- trueNew York City
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers
- trueAdventure writing -- Exploration
- trueGawronski, Billy, 1910-1981 -- Travel -- Antarctica
- truePolar expeditions
- Adventure and adventurers -- Antarctica -- Biography
- trueOcean travel
- Biographies
- HISTORY / Polar Regions
- trueStowaways
- Stowaways -- Antarctica -- Biography
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueOcean travel -- History -- 20th century
- trueLife stories -- People in history | Witness to history
- True adventure stories
- trueTravel Writing -- Polar Regions
- trueBiographies
- Travel writing
- trueAntarctica -- Description and travel
- Teenage boys -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Summary
- Documents the true story of a New York City teenager who stowed away on an expedition to Antarctica in 1928, tracing how high schooler Billy Gawronski snuck aboard the expedition's flagship and eventually became an international celebrity
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10616414
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shapiro, Laurie Gwen
- Dewey number
- 919.8904
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Gawronski, Billy
- Antarctica
- Stowaways
- Ocean travel
- Adventure and adventurers
- Teenage boys
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers
- HISTORY / Polar Regions
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- Adventure and adventurers
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica
- Label
- The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica, Laurie Gwen Shapiro
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-226) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn974796105
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781476753867
- Lccn
- 2017007428
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)974796105
- Label
- The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica, Laurie Gwen Shapiro
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-226) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn974796105
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781476753867
- Lccn
- 2017007428
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)974796105
Subject
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Adventure and adventurers -- Antarctica -- Biography
- trueAdventure writing -- Exploration
- trueAdventurers
- trueAntarctica -- Description and travel
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers
- Biographies
- trueBiographies
- trueChildren of immigrants
- trueGawronski, Billy, 1910-1981 -- Travel -- Antarctica
- HISTORY / Polar Regions
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- trueLife stories -- People in history | Witness to history
- trueNew York City
- trueOcean travel
- trueOcean travel -- History -- 20th century
- truePolar expeditions
- trueStowaways
- Stowaways -- Antarctica -- Biography
- trueTeenage boys
- Teenage boys -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- trueTravel Writing -- Polar Regions
- Travel writing
- True adventure stories
Genre
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueAdventure writing
- trueBiographies
- trueBiography
- trueLife stories
- trueTravel Writing
- trueTravel writing
- True adventure stories
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