Shipwrecked On The Top Of The World: Four Against The Arctic

Shipwrecked On The Top Of The World: Four Against The Arctic by David Roberts


ISBN
9780751536898
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
320
Dimensions
126 x 198mm

While reading Valerian Albanov's 'In The Land Of White Death' David Roberts came across an old legend of four shipwrecked Russian sailors who had managed to survive for six years on Svalbard in the high Arctic. Incredulous, Roberts - an expert on exploration literature - determined to learn the truth about this astonishing story.

This book is the result of that quest, a journey that took Roberts to libraries and archives on two continents and eventually to Russia and Svalbard itself. In 1743 a Russian ship bound for Arctic walrus-hunting grounds was wrecked by ice, stranding four of its crew - the only survivors - on a tiny island. With minimal provisions they endured six years of ice-bound hell: they collected driftwood for fires and with homemade lances killed ten polar bears (nine of which attacked them) for food.
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