The Indestructible Tom Crean: Heroic Explorer of the Antarctic

Heroic Explorer of the Antarctic.

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.

Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
Published: 01/24/2023
Pages: 56
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.90h x 11.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780593117729
Age: Ages 4-8


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/24/2022
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2022
Booklist 01/01/2023 pg. 52
Horn Book Magazine 01/01/2023 pg. 111
School Library Journal 02/01/2023 pg. 88

About the Author
Jennifer Thermes is a map illustrator and the author-illustrator of many books for children, including Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island, which was an Orbis Pictus Honor Book and a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year. She lives in Connecticut. Please visit jenniferthermes.com.