The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's
Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of
science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is "a thrilling
adventure that captures not only the making of a man but of a
nation" (David Grann, bestselling author of Killers of the Flower
Moon). It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe
Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great War was over and American
optimism was higher than the stock market. What better moment to
launch an expedition to Antarctica, the planet's final frontier?
Everyone wanted in on the adventure. Rockefellers and Vanderbilts
begged to be taken along as mess boys, and newspapers across the
globe covered the planning's every stage. And then, the night
before the expedition's flagship set off, Billy Gawronski-a
mischievous, first-generation New York City high schooler,
desperate to escape a dreary future in the family upholstery
business-jumped into the Hudson River and snuck aboard. Could he
get away with it? From the soda shops of New York's Lower East Side
to the dance halls of sultry Francophone Tahiti, all the way to
Antarctica's blinding white and deadly freeze, author Laurie Gwen
Shapiro "narrates this period piece with gusto" (Los Angeles
Times), taking readers on the "novelistic" (The New Yorker) and
unforgettable voyage of a plucky young stowaway who became a
Roaring Twenties celebrity, a mascot for an up-by-your bootstraps
era.
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