The Karluk's Last Voyage
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The Karluk's Last Voyage

An Epic of Death and Survival in the Arctic

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The Karluk's Last Voyage

An Epic of Death and Survival in the Arctic

About this book

“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.

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Table of contents

  1. I The Expedition and its Objects
  2. II The Voyage Begins
  3. III We Meet the Ice and get a Polar Bear
  4. IV We Are Frozen in
  5. V Our Westward Drift Begins
  6. VI Stefansson’s Departure
  7. VII Driven By the Storm
  8. VIII We Drift Away from the Land
  9. IX In Winter Quarters
  10. X The Arctic Night
  11. XI The Sinking of the Karluk
  12. XII Our Home at Shipwreck Camp
  13. XIII We Begin Our Sledging
  14. XIV The Sun Comes Back
  15. XV The Return of Mamen and the Departure of the Doctor’s Party
  16. XVI Over the Ice Towards Wrangell Island
  17. XVII Through the Pressure Ridge
  18. XVIII We Land on Wrangell Island
  19. XIX Kataktovick and I Start for Siberia
  20. XX Across the Moving Ice
  21. XXI In Sight of Land
  22. XXII We Meet the Chuckches
  23. XXIII Eastward Along the Tundra
  24. XXIV Colt
  25. XXV “Music Hath Charms”
  26. XXVI We Arrive at East Cape
  27. XXVII With Baron Kleist to Emma Harbor
  28. XXVIII In Touch With the World Again
  29. XXIX Waiting
  30. XXX Off for Wrangell Island
  31. XXXI The Rescue from Wrangell Island