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Gr 7 Up—Like Bertozzi's Lewis & Clark (First Second, 2011), this is another graphic novel focusing on the real lives of explorers. Ernest Shackleton is most famous for his plan to cross the Antarctic by foot, which was a miserable failure (their ship Endurance was crushed by the ice, and the crew was stranded for months on end) and yet defied incredible odds (all of the men in the expedition survived). The story...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Seamlessly incorporating maps and charts among the narrative panels, Nick Bertozzi takes full advantage of the graphic-novel format to tell the story of Ernest Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic expedition and to present the historical and geographical context in which it took pla...Log In or Sign Up to Read More