The Last Voyage of the Karluk by Robert Abram Bartlett read by Barry Eads | Full Audio Book
The Last Voyage of the Karluk by Robert Abram Bartlett (1875 - 1946) and Ralph T. Hale (1880 - 1951)
Genre(s): Memoirs, Modern (20th C), Exploration
Read by: Barry Eads in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - The Expedition and its Objects
00:12:35 - 02 - The Voyage Begins
00:20:48 - 03 - We Meet the Ice and get a Polar Bear
00:29:53 - 04 - We are Frozen In
00:38:24 - 05 - Our Westward Drift Begins
00:45:07 - 06 - Stefansson's Departure
00:52:47 - 07 - Driven by the Storm
01:04:23 - 08 - We Drift Away from the Land
01:19:27 - 09 - In Winter Quarters
01:35:49 - 10 - The Arctic Night
01:51:57 - 11 - The Sinking of the Karluk
02:04:57 - 12 - Our Home at Shipwreck Camp
02:20:50 - 13 - We Begin Our Sledging
02:36:17 - 14 - The Sun Comes Back
02:45:30 - 15 - The Return of Mamen and the Departure of the Doctor's Party
03:01:49 - 16 - Over the Ice Towards Wrangell Island
03:20:00 - 17 - Through the Pressure Ridge
03:34:45 - 18 - We Land on Wrangell Island
03:48:37 - 19 - Kataktovick and I Start for Siberia
03:58:45 - 20 - Across the Moving Ice
04:19:16 - 21 - In Sight of Land
04:36:43 - 22 - We Meet the Chuckches
04:54:06 - 23 - Eastward Along the Tundra
05:08:25 - 24 - Colt
05:22:45 - 25 - 'Music Hath Charms'
05:36:09 - 26 - We Arrive at East Cape
05:50:07 - 27 - With Baron Kleist to Emma Harbor
06:11:39 - 28 - In Touch with the World Again
06:18:40 - 29 - Waiting
06:33:35 - 30 - Off for Wrangell Island
06:50:36 - 31 - The Rescue from Wrangell Island
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