{"product_id":"last-voyage-of-the-karluk-1","title":"Last Voyage of the Karluk","description":"\u003ch1\u003eLast Voyage of the Karluk\u003c\/h1\u003eWilliam Laird McKinlay,William Laird McKinlay\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Griffin\u003cbr\u003eJune 12 1999\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780312206550\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0312206550\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003eAn astonishing narrative of disaster and perseverance, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Voyage of the Karluk\u003c\/i\u003e will thrill readers of adventure classics like\u003ci\u003e Into Thin Air \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Climb\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1913, explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson hired William McKinlay to join the crew of the \u003ci\u003eKarluk\u003c\/i\u003e, the leading ship of his new Arctic expedition. Stefansson's mission was to chart the waters north of Alaska; yet the \u003ci\u003eKarluk\u003c\/i\u003e's crew was untrained, the ship was ill-suited to the icy conditions, and almost at once the \u003ci\u003eKarluk\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten 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 crewmen, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNearly a century later, this remains one of the most compelling survival stories ever written-an extraordinary testament to man's overpowering will to live.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390820057133,"sku":"WHS-c0e8d73d9e274136a4b0063ffbf6661c","price":17.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_c43f70a0-7c35-42fc-a617-4f8af9fd5642.jpg?v=1787347726","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/last-voyage-of-the-karluk-1","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}