{"product_id":"the-last-voyage-of-the-karluk-a-survivors-memoir-of-arctic-disaster-9780312206550","title":"The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor's Memoir of Arctic Disaster","description":"\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\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martin's Griffin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/12\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312206550\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.26h x 5.51w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/13\/1999 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"William Laird McKinlay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635811905692,"sku":"9780312206550","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1389d693-3fcf-48a0-866a-d633e4a5ee27.jpg?v=1603840590","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-last-voyage-of-the-karluk-a-survivors-memoir-of-arctic-disaster-9780312206550","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}