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The magnificent true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Area who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most amazing feat of knowledge and daring: an expedition to Antarctica. It had been 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. THE FANTASTIC Warfare was over, and American optimism was greater than the stock market. What better second to launch an expedition to Antarctica, the planet's last frontier? This is the moon getting before the 1960s. Everyone wanted to join the experience. Rockefellers and Vanderbilts begged to be studied along as clutter boys, and papers throughout the world covered the planning's every level. The night before the expedition's flagship launched, Billy Gawronski - a skinny, first-generation New York City high schooler needy to flee a dreary future in the family upholstery business - jumped in to the Hudson River and snuck aboard. Could he get away with it? From grimy roadways of New York's Lower East Area to the rowdy dance halls of sultry Francophone Tahiti, completely to Antarctica's blinding white and deadly freeze, Laurie Gwen Shapiro's The Stowaway goes on the unforgettable voyage of a gutsy young stowaway who became a global super star, a mascot for an up-by-your-bootstraps age group.
