Karluk''s Last Voyage - An Epic of Death and Survival in the Arctic

"We did not all come back." Thus begins the rare firsthand account of the extraordinary ordeal of the Karluk, the flagship of explorer Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Arctic expedition of 1913-1916. When ice trapped the Karluk, Stefansson abandoned Captain Robert A. Bartlett and the crew-eleven of whom perished-to their fate.

When the ice crushed the Karluk and sank her, Bartlett led the shipwrecked survivors safely to Wrangell Island. From there, with one Inuit companion, he journeyed across 700 miles of frozen seas and Siberian wilderness to return with rescuers. It is a feat that rivals Shackleton's own celebrated efforts to seek for the crew of the Endurance.

List of contents

I. The Expedition and its Objects
II. The Voyage Begins
III. We Meet the Ice and Get a Polar Bear
IV. We Are Frozen In
V. Our Westward Drift Begins
VI. Stefansson's Departure
VII. Driven By the Storm
VIII. We Drift Away from the Land
IX. In Winter Quarters
X. The Arctic Night
XI. The Sinking of the Karluk
XII. Our Home at Shipwreck Camp
XIII. We Begin Our Sledging
XIX. Kataktovick and I Start for Siberia
XX. Across the Moving Ice
XXI. In Sight of Land
XXII. We Meet the Chuckches
XXIII. Eastward Along the Tundra
XXIV. Colt
XXV. "Music Hath Charms"
XXVI. We Arrive at East Cape
XXVII. With Baron Kleist to Emma Harbor
XXVIII. In Touch with the World Again
XXIX. Waiting
XXX. Off for Wrangell Island
XXXI. The Rescue from Wrangell Island

About the author

Captain Robert A. Bartlett, the greatest ice captain who ever lived, commanded the Roosevelt on Robert E. Peary’s last two attempts to conquer the North Pole; pioneered the trail over rough ice that brought Peary to within 150 miles of his goal; and was the last white man Peary sent back before his final dash to the Pole.

Edward E. Leslie is the author of Desperate Journeys and Abandoned Souls: The True Story of Castaways and Other Survivors. He lives in Massillon, Ohio.

Summary

A riveting account of an early 20th century polar expedition by one of the greatest ice captains who ever lived.

Product details

• Authors: Capt Robert Bartlett, Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, Capt. Robert Allen Bartlett, Robert A. Bartlett, Robert A. Capt. Bartlett, Robert A. Capt. Bartlett
• Assisted by: Leslie Edward E. (Introduction)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.08.2014
• EAN: 9781590774762
• ISBN: 978-1-59077-476-2
• No. of pages: 406
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers, HISTORY / Polar Regions, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, TRAVEL / Polar Regions, Travel & holiday, General & world history, History of other lands