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Laurie Gwen Shapiro: The Stowaway. A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica
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In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Laurie Gwen Shapiro chats with Gabriella about the choices she made while writing The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica, the true story of Billy Gawronski, a New York teenager who stowed away on a ship bound for Antarctica in 1928.
Laurie Gwen Shapiro shares with us her inspiration for writing The Stowaway.
Laurie reveals in vivid detail, Billy Gawronski’s determination, after three failed attempts, to travel on the first American expedition to Antarctica since 1840.
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