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  • Published: 26 December 2013
  • ISBN: 9780448479316
  • Imprint: Penguin Workshop
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $14.99

Who Was Ernest Shackleton?





One of the bravest explorers ever, Sir Ernest Shackleton's daring adventures to Antarctica are a blueprint of leadership and courage.

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.

  • Published: 26 December 2013
  • ISBN: 9780448479316
  • Imprint: Penguin Workshop
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $14.99

About the author

James Buckley Jr.

James Buckley Jr. is one of the country’s most prolific writers of nonfiction for kids, with more than 200 titles to his name, including twenty in the New York Times bestselling Who Was…? biography series and nine books in the Show Me History graphic nonfiction series. James runs Shoreline Publishing Group, a leading producer of nonfiction kids’ books for national and school-library publishers. Shoreline has produced books about moviemaking, creating comic books, celebrity biographies, fashion design, and more. James lives in Santa Barbara, California, where he is the co-producer of the local production of Bloomsday, an annual salute to Irish author James Joyce.

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