Last Voyage of the Karluk Paperback - 1999
by William Laird McKinlay
A classic of Arctic adventure rediscovered--the only firsthand account of one of the century's worst exploration disasters that took place in 1913. Nearly a century later, McKinley's memoir of this event remains one of the most compelling survival stories ever written. 50 photos.
From the rear cover
"In 1913, explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson hired William McKinlay to join the crew of the Karluk, the leading ship of his new Arctic expedition. Stefansson's mission was to chart the waters north of Alaska; yet the Karluk's crew was untrained, the ship was ill-suited to the icy conditions, and almost at once the Karluk was crushed - at which point Stefansson abandoned his crew to continue his journey on another ship. This is the only firsthand account of what followed: a nightmare struggle in which half the crew perished, one was mysteriously shot, and the rest were near death by the time of their rescue twelve months later."--BOOK JACKET. "Written some sixty years after the fact, and drawing extensively on his own daily log, McKinlay's narrative of this doomed expedition is rendered with remarkable clarity of recollection, and with a combination of horror and a level of self-possession that, to modern eyes, may seem incredible. Like most of his companions, McKinlay was inexperienced, without a day's training in the skills essential to survival in the Arctic. Yet he and many of his fellow crewman, with the help of an Eskimo family accustomed to such conditions, survived a year under the harshest of conditions, enduring 80-mile-per-hour gales and temperatures well below zero with only the barest of provisions and almost no hope of contact with civilization."--BOOK JACKET.
Details
- Title Last Voyage of the Karluk
- Author William Laird McKinlay
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First edition
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Griffin, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-06-12
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780312206550 / 0312206550
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.26 x 5.51 x 0.52 in (20.98 x 14.00 x 1.32 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: Arctic/Antarctic
- Library of Congress subjects Arctic regions - Discovery and exploration, Karluk (Ship)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99017672
- Dewey Decimal Code 919.804
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Citations
- New York Times, 06/13/1999, Page 32
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