Janice Marriott
Autore di Interrupting the Big Sleep (Orbit Chapter Book)
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Janice Marriott is a leading author of books for young adults and children. Some of her most popular novels are Letters to Lesley and Crossroads, which won the 1996 New Zealand Post Supreme and Senior Fiction Awards. She also won the Esther Glen Medal. In 2018 Janice Marriott was honored with the mostra altro Storylines Margaret Mahy Award. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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- Wellington, New Zealand
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- Gisborne Girls' High School
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Surviving a series of dangers, including a near capsizing, the boat reached the southern coast of South Georgia after a voyage lasting 16 days. Shackleton and two companions then crossed the island's mountainous interior to reach a whaling station on the northern side.
The whaling station, was now just a mile and a half away. They tried to smarten themselves up a little bit before entering the station, but their beards were long, their hair was matted, their clothes, tattered and stained as they hadn't been washed in nearly a year. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of May 20th 1916, they walked into the outskirts of Stromness whaling station, as they approached the station, two small boys met them.
Shackleton wrote; "Down we hurried, and when quite close to the station we met two small boys ten or twelve years of age. I asked these lads where the manager's house was situated. They did not answer. They gave us one look—a comprehensive look that did not need to be repeated. Then they ran from us as fast as their legs would carry them."
Thor’s Tale is an account of the lives of those two boys, and of the effect that the meeting with the explorers had on them. Told from 11-year-old whaling station hand Thor's perspective. Shackleton and crew on the Endeavour arrive at South Georgia. Adventure, historic, whaling, explorers. Good.… (altro)