At the turn of the twentieth century, Antarctica is the last unexplored continent. The ice is unforgiving. It can break the human spirit. It takes many men willing to face hardship, danger, and years away from home to journey to this uncharted end of the earth. This is the story of one. His name is Tom Crean.
The Indestructible Tom Crean reveals the incredible true stories of Crean's adventures on the Discovery, Terra Nova, and Endurance expeditions. He hauls eight-hundred-pound sleds full of supplies, escapes from drifting ice floes, and trudges miles alone across a treacherous ice shelf. When the Endurance becomes trapped in the frozen sea and sinks, it is up to Crean and several others to go for help. They sail a tiny lifeboat through the most violent seas in the world and cross a daunting glacial mountain range by foot in order to save their fellow explorers. Tom Crean's heroic acts of courage, perseverance, and teamwork inspire the men to keep going.
Through dazzling mapwork and vivid illustrations, Jennifer Thermes brings a formidable landscape and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration to life.
'Readers fascinated by the sea or by our least-populated continent will find this biography gripping ... A story of bitter cold infused with warmth and with the fighting spirit of its courageous subject' - Kirkus
'Thermes's honed text, in a grabbingly immediate present tense, uses short, high-impact sentences that make the most of the inherent drama. Her illustrations (in watercolor, colored pencil, and salt) are full of detail, action, and atmosphere' - Horn Book Magazine
'The artwork features a soft, sunny palette that keeps the story upbeat, even during blizzards and perilous times' - Booklist
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About Jennifer Thermes
Jennifer Thermes is a children's book author and illustrator, and a map illustrator. Jennifer weaves maps that give a sense of geography and place into her stories., She is fascinated by the big picture of history and how it connects to our lives today. In her free time, Jennifer likes to walk, garden, read, draw and figure out where to put her ever-growing piles of books. She lives with her family in a quirky antique farmhouse in Connecticut. Her recent picture book Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island was a 2020 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book and a Junior Library Guild Selection.
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