By Laurie Gwen Shapiro
ISBN-10: 1476753865
ISBN-13: 9781476753867
It used to be 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling enjoyable. the nice struggle was once over and American optimism was once greater than the inventory marketplace. What larger second to release an day trip to Antarctica, the planet’s ultimate frontier? This used to be the moon touchdown sooner than the Nineteen Sixties. each person desired to sign up for the journey. Rockefellers and Vanderbilts begged to be taken alongside as mess boys, and newspapers around the globe lined the planning’s each stage.
The evening ahead of the expedition’s flagship introduced, Billy Gawronski—a thin, first iteration big apple urban excessive schooler desirous to break out a dreary destiny within the family members upholstery business—jumped into the Hudson River and snuck aboard.
Could he break out with it?
From the dirty streets of recent York’s decrease East facet to the rowdy dance halls of sultry Francophone Tahiti, all of the approach to Antarctica’s blinding white and lethal freeze, Laurie Gwen Shapiro’s The Stowaway takes you at the unforgettable voyage of a gutsy younger stowaway who grew to become a world star, a mascot for an up-by-your bootstraps age.
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