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NIVEN, JENNIFER: : THE ICE MASTER - THE DOOMED 1913 VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK

LONDON.MACMILLAN,2000.

ISBN 0333779606.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] NFINE/VG+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, wrap-around colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj with lettering to front+spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no major nicks,tears or splits present,front lower corner tip minisculely rubbed with similar loss.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean without; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips – near pristine - appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain chocolate brown cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip and immaculate repeated b/w regional map (Arctic Ocean,Alaska+Canada and routes taken by parties) with b/w map inset aerial diagram of North Pole illustrated sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xivpp+3-402pp [paginated] includes a Prologue,a contents list/table,Aboard the Karluk: Crew,Scientific staff,Eskimos and Passengers,16 chapters and an Epilogue,16pp of 37 contemporary b/w biographical and polar scenic photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece, between pp114/5 and pp274/5 respectively,Notes, b/w maps (Karluk's lower deck plan,Shipwreck Camp plan,pencil tracing of Wrangel Island), photograph+map credits and acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title,epigram,and title separator page. This is a story of a disasterous expedition, treacherous crew members and extraordinary bravery.Drawing on previously unpublished letters of journals of crew members,their decendants and interviews with survivors,this book is the account of one of the most ambitious - and disasterous - Artic expeditions ever mounted. The Karluk set of in September 1913 and the ship and its crew were soon imprisoned in ice,abandoned by the expedition's leader.For five months those left behind eked out an existence on board,until they were forced to leave the ship when she was crushed by powerful ice floes.The ship went down in january 1914,and for two more months the ship's company lived on the polar icepack. Finally,the captain left his crew and walked seven hundred miles across the Artic to search for help.He reached civilization in May 1914 and the handful of survivors were finally rescued by a tiny schooner in September 1914.This is their story. Drawing on previously unpublished letters of journals of crew members,their descendants and, astonishingly,interviews with survivors, Jennifer Niven's book is a riveting account of one of the most ambitious - and disastrous - Arctic expeditions ever mounted.It is a story about unlikely heroes and unexpected villains - humans reduced to their primal needs by the infinite power and mystery of nature. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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