FREE: In The Land of White Death, by Valerian Albanov

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This is an ex-library book in great shape that is hard to find. I have read most of the polar exploration accounts but this is a gem that is notable for its writing style and frank honesty. Brief synopsis:

In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a 32-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic hunting grounds, Albanov's ship, the Saint Anna, was frozen fast in the pack ice of the treacherous Kara Sea....For nearly a year and a half, the 25 men and one woman about the ship endured terrible hardships as the icebound ship drifted helplessly north. Convinced that the Saint Anna would never free herself from the ice, Albanov and 13 crewmen left the ship in January 2014, hauling makeshift sledges and kayaks behind them across the frozen sea, hoping to reach the distant coast of Franz Josef Land. This book is the diary of the 90 day ordeal. First published in 1917 in Russia, his narrative is translated into English for the first time. Haunting, suspenseful, and told with gripping detail, In the Land of White Death can now rightfully take its place among the classic writings of Nansen, Scott, Cherry-Garrard, and Shackleton.

Published 2000 by Modern Library.
Preface by Jon Krakauer, (author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air)

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