The Ice-Cold Heaven: A Novel

A "compelling adventure novel" of a young stowaway on the 1914 Antarctic expedition that "draws the reader deep into Shackleton's frigid world . . . gripping" (Kirkus Reviews).

With Ernest Shackleton on his ship Endurance are twenty-eight crew members, sixty-nine sled dogs, a gramophone, a bicycle—and Merce Blackboro, a seventeen-year-old stowaway hidden amidst oilskins and sea boots. Their journey into the ice is by way of the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. But the Antarctic summ...