The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica

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. 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781476753867
ISBN: 1476753865
Physical Description: print
239 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-224) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.