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Author Eaton, Anthony, 1972-

Title Into white silence / Anthony Eaton
Published North Sydney, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, 2008

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS CRC  JUNIOR FICTION Eat/Iws  AVAILABLE
 W'BOOL CRC  JUNIOR FICTION Eat/Iws  AVAILABLE
 MELB SPCBC  819 Eaton Ant/Iws  LIB USE ONLY
Description 393 pages ; 21 cm
Series Children's Book Council of Australia awards ; 2009
Summary "During the winter of 1922, the Exploration Vessel Raven became trapped in the Antarctic icepack, entombing 28 men aboard it through the dark, polar night. 'Into White Silence' tells their story - a story of a lost past, of a tragic future, of ice, ambition and madness. It captures the terrible, fascinating beauty of Antarctica, both as it was then and is today, and is a journey into the mind of every person who has ever set foot upon those ice-bound shores.'--Provided by publisher
Notes Bibliography: p. 392-3
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-393)
Audience Secondary school students
Notes Children's Book Council of Australia honour book 2008
Subject 2009 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards (shortlisted)
Adventure stories.
Young adult fiction.
Shipwrecks -- Fiction.
Explorers -- Antarctica -- Fiction.
Disasters -- Fiction.
Diaries -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Disasters -- Fiction.
Diaries -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Polar regions -- Discovery and exploration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104138 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Antarctic Regions -- Discovery and exploration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85005493 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Antarctic Regions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85005490 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Antarctic Regions -- Discovery and exploration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85005493 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Antarctic Regions -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114198
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Australian fiction
History
Action and adventure fiction.
Young adult fiction
History.
Young adult adventure stories
Teenage adventure fiction
Teen fiction
LC no. 2009397779
ISBN 9781741663259 paperback