Published by Modern Library, New York, 2000., 2000
ISBN 10: 0679641009 ISBN 13: 9780679641001
Seller: Virginia Martin, aka bookwitch, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: USED_FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 12 mo., hardcover, fine, as new, in fine blue and white pictorial dj. Giftable. In 1912, Valerian Albanov set sail from Alexandrovsk (Murmansk) as second in command on the good ship "Saint Anna" bound for Vladivostok, 7, 000 miles away, across treacherous Arctic waters. His ship was trapped in the frozen Kara Sea. Eighteen months later, with supplies running perilously low and his vessel more firmly locked in the ice than ever, Albanov abandoned ship and led thirteen men southward in a desperate fight for survival. Albanov turned out to be both a gifted writer and an uncommonly honest diarist. He wrote a spare, astouding, utterly compelling book, here published in English for the first time. Preface by Jon Krakauer, Introduction by David Roberts. 202 pp. and notes on author. Map endpapers. Book.