The last voyage of the Karluk : flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctice expedition of 1913-16 / by Robert A. Bartlett and Ralph T. Hale.
TITLE:
The last voyage of the Karluk : flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctice expedition of 1913-16 / by Robert A. Bartlett and Ralph T. Hale.
Publication Date:
1919, 1916
Publication Information:
Boston, Mass. : Small, Maynard and Co.,
Physical Description:
329 p. : ill.
Geographic Term:
Summary:
This is Captain Bob Bartlett’s version of the controversial loss of the Karluk, the flagship of Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s Canadian arctic expedition of 1913-1916. Bartlett played Chopin’s Funeral March as the ice claimed his ship, then lead his crew to Wrangell Island where they awaited his return. Bartlett left them, walking some 700 miles across the frozen Arctic Ocean and down the coast of Siberia to get help.
Language:
English
General Note:
Illustrated from charts and photographs.
