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9780815411246

The Karluk's Last Voyage: An Epic of Death and Survival in the Arctic, 1913-1916

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  • ISBN13:

    9780815411246

  • ISBN10:

    0815411243

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-01-01
  • Publisher: Natl Book Network
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $18.95

Summary

We did not all come back. Thus begins the firsthand account of the extraordinary adventure of the Karluk, the flagship of explorer Vilhjalmar Steffanson's Arctic expedition of 1913-1916.

Table of Contents

The Expedition and its Objects
1(9)
The Voyage Begins
10(6)
We Meet the Ice and get a Polar Bear
16(7)
We Are Frozen in
23(6)
Our Westward Drift Begins
29(5)
Stefansson's Departure
34(5)
Driven By the Storm
39(9)
We Drift Away from the Land
48(11)
In Winter Quarters
59(12)
The Arctic Night
71(12)
The Sinking of the Karluk
83(10)
Our Home at Shipwreck Camp
93(12)
We Begin Our Sledging
105(12)
The Sun Comes Back
117(7)
The Return of Mamen and the Departure of the Doctor's Party
124(13)
Over the Ice Towards Wrangell Island
137(13)
Through the Pressure Ridge
150(11)
We Land on Wrangell Island
161(10)
Kataktovick and I Start for Siberia
171(8)
Across the Moving Ice
179(15)
In Sight of Land
194(13)
We Meet the Chuckches
207(13)
Eastward Along the Tundra
220(11)
Colt
231(11)
``Music Hath Charms''
242(11)
We Arrive at East Cape
253(11)
With Baron Kleist to Emma Harbor
264(16)
In Touch With the World Again
280(5)
Waiting
285(12)
Off for Wrangell Island
297(14)
The Rescue from Wrangell Island
311

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