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In 1912, six months after Scott and his men came to grief in Antarctica, the Russian navigator Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would ...Show synopsisIn 1912, six months after Scott and his men came to grief in Antarctica, the Russian navigator Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic hunting grounds, Albanov's ship, the Saint Anna, was frozen fast in the pack ice of the treacherous Kara Sea - a misfortune grievously compounded by an incompetent commander, the absence of crucial nautical charts, insufficient fuel, and inadequate provisions that left the crew weak and debilitated by scurvy. For nearly a year and a half, the twenty-five men and one woman aboard the Saint Anna endured terrible hardships and danger as the icebound ship drifted helplessly north. Convinced that the Saint Anna would never free herself from the ice, Albanov and thirteen crewmen left the ship in January 1914, hauling makeshift sledges and kayaks behind them across the frozen sea, hoping to reach the distant coast of Franz Josef Land. With only a shockingly inaccurate map to guide him, Albanov led his men on a 235-mile journey of continuous peril, enduring blizzards, disintegrating ice floes, attacks by polar bears and walrus, starvation, sickness, snowblindness, and mutiny. That any of the team survived is a wonder. That Albanov kept a diary of his ninety-day ordeal - a story that Jon Krakauer calls an 'astounding, utterly compelling book', and David Roberts calls 'as lean and taut as a good thriller' - is nearly miraculous. First published in Russia in 1917, Albanov's narrative is here translated into English for the first time. Haunting, suspenseful, and told with gripping detail, "In the Land of White Death" can now rightfully take its place among the classic writings of Nansen, Scott, Cherry-Garrard and Shackleton.Hide synopsis
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic – Hardcover
(2000)
by Valerian Albanov, Jon Krakauer (Preface by), David Roberts (Introduction by)
Modern Library
ISBN: 0679641009
ISBN-13: 9780679641001
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic – Trade paperback
(2001)
by Valerian Albanov, Alison Anderson (Translator), David Roberts (Introduction by)
Modern Library
Expanded ed.
ISBN: 067978361X
ISBN-13: 9780679783619
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic – Hardcover
(2001)
by Valerian Albanov, Alison Anderson (Translator), David Roberts (Introduction by)
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If you are experienced in the polar regions, or at least familiar with these places and appreciate beautiful writing, this book should be in your library.
I personally have been lucky enough to have had extensive experience in polar seas, both in the arctic and the antarctic, in powerful government ...
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