The Last Voyage of the Karluk

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Last Voyage of the Karluk by Robert Abram Bartlett; Ralph T. Hale. Read in English by Barry Eads. In August 1913, the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson’s Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–16, became trapped in the ice while sailing to Herschel Island near the northern Alaska/Yukon border. After drifting across the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, in January 1914 the ship was crushed by the ice and sank. In the following months, the crew struggled to survive, first on the ice and then on the shores of Wrangell Island. In all, eleven men of the crew of 25 died before rescue. - Summary by Barry Eads For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (209MB)

Directors & creators

Robert Abram Bartlett; Ralph T. Hale

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;travel; voyage; karluk; stefansson; canadian arctic expedition; wrangell island

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