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<p>An astonishing narrative of disaster and perseverance, <i>The Last Voyage of the Karluk</i> will thrill readers of adventure classics like<i> Into Thin Air </i>and <i>The Climb</i>. In 1913, explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson hired William McKinlay to join the crew of the <i>Karluk</i>, the leading ship of his new Arctic expedition. Stefansson's mission was to chart the waters north of Alaska; yet the <i>Karluk</i>'s crew was untrained, the ship was ill-suited to the icy conditions, and almost at
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- Author
- William Laird McKinlay
- Publisher
- New York: St. Martin's Griffin
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781250095701
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Travel, History, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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