The Last Voyage of the Karluk: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Last Voyage of the Karluk, credited to Robert Abram Bartlett; Ralph T. Hale, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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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

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Last Voyage of the Karluk
• Author credits: Robert Abram Bartlett; Ralph T. Hale
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 7:16:04

Catalogue topics

• travel
• voyage
• karluk
• stefansson
• canadian arctic expedition
• wrangell island

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 01 - The Expedition and its Objects — 12:35
2. 02 - The Voyage Begins — 8:12
3. 03 - We Meet the Ice and get a Polar Bear — 9:05
4. 04 - We are Frozen In — 8:30
5. 05 - Our Westward Drift Begins — 6:42
6. 06 - Stefansson’s Departure — 7:39
7. 07 - Driven by the Storm — 11:36
8. 08 - We Drift Away from the Land — 15:03
9. 09 - In Winter Quarters — 16:20
10. 10 - The Arctic Night — 16:08
11. 11 - The Sinking of the Karluk — 13:00
12. 12 - Our Home at Shipwreck Camp — 15:53
13. 13 - We Begin Our Sledging — 15:26
14. 14 - The Sun Comes Back — 9:11
15. 15 - The Return of Mamen and the Departure of the Doctor’s Party — 16:18
16. 16 - Over the Ice Towards Wrangell Island — 18:11
17. 17 - Through the Pressure Ridge — 14:44
18. 18 - We Land on Wrangell Island — 13:50
19. 19 - Kataktovick and I Start for Siberia — 10:07
20. 20 - Across the Moving Ice — 20:31
21. 21 - In Sight of Land — 17:26
22. 22 - We Meet the Chuckches — 17:22
23. 23 - Eastward Along the Tundra — 14:17
24. 24 - Colt — 14:19

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