In the land of white death : an epic story of survival in the Siberian Arctic / Valerian Albanov.
TITLE:
In the land of white death : an epic story of survival in the Siberian Arctic / Valerian Albanov.
Publication Date:
2000
Publication Information:
New York : Modern Library,
Edition:
1st English translation.
Physical Description:
205 p. : ill., maps.
Geographic Term:
Summary:
In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named 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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780679641001
General Note:
First published in Russia in 1917.
Interior photos courtesy of the Arctic and Antarctic Museum of St. Petersburg.
