No. of pages 48
Published: 2003
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This book features in the following series: Skyracer Green, Skyrider Green, Skyrider Purple .
There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published in 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers .
Janice Marriott is an award-winning children's author, of both fiction and non-fiction, most recently winning the 2007 NZ Post Junior Fiction award for Thor's Tale. Janice lives and works in central Wellington.
This book features the following characters:
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
This book features the character Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton.
Ernest Shackleton
As a boy Ernest Shackleton 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. I914 saw his historic 1914 journey aboard the Endurance.