ISBN: 0689839871 9780689839870

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General

Page count: 319

In the summer of 1768, an eleven-year-old butcher's apprentice named Nicholas Young climbed aboard a ship, hid himself from captain and crew, and waited to be carried far away from the life he hated in London. <br> Nick didn't know it, but the ship he chose -- H.M.S. <i>Endeavour</i> -- was bound for an astonishing adventure. Captained by James Cook, <i>Endeavour</i> was on a secret mission to discover an unknown continent at the bottom of the globe. During his three-year voyage, Nick encountered hardship and was awed by new discoveries; he weathered danger and proved himself brave when disaster struck; he earned the respect and trust of the gentlemen on board; he made a friend for life. And he made history. <br> An eleven-year-old boy named Nicholas Young really did stow away on Cook's <i>Endeavour.</i> Based on exhaustive historical research and illustrated with evocative drawings by Robert Andrew Parker, <i>Stowaway</i> is Newbery winner Karen Hesse's extraordinary fictional account of the real Nicholas's journey.