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Mod lib in the Land of White Death [Audiobook] download free by Valerian Albanov

Mod lib in the Land of White Death Audiobook download free by Valerian Albanov
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  • Author: Valerian Albanov
  • Release date: 2001/4/26
  • Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
  • ISBN: 9780679783619
  • Rating: 7.47 of 10
  • Votes: 101
  • Review by: Chanel Canales
  • Review rating: 8.87 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/9/29
  • Duration: 3H34M36S in 256 kbps (57.6 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-15
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WAV, TTA, FLAC, MPEG4, WMA (compression ZIP, TAR.BZ, TAR, JAR, RAR, LZMA)
  • Total pages original book: 288
  • Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 17M32S (4.8 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic hunting grounds, Albanov's ship, the Saint Anna, was frozen fast in the pack ice of the treacherous Kara Sea-a misfortune grievously compounded by an incompetent commander, the absence of crucial nautical charts, insufficient fuel, and inadequate provisions that left the crew weak and debilitated by scurvy. For nearly a year and a half, the twenty-five men and one woman aboard the Saint Anna endured terrible hardships and danger as the icebound ship drifted helplessly north. Convinced that the Saint Anna would never free herself from the ice, Albanov and thirteen crewmen left the ship in January 1914, hauling makeshift sledges and kayaks behind them across the frozen sea, hoping to reach the distant coast of Franz Josef Land. With only a shockingly inaccurate map to guide him, Albanov led his men on a 235-mile journey of continuous peril, enduring blizzards, disintegrating ice floes, attacks by polar bears and walrus, starvation, sickness, snowblindness, and mutiny. That any of the team survived is a wonder. That Albanov kept a diary of his ninety-day ordeal-a story that Jon Krakauer calls an 'astounding, utterly compelling book,' and David Roberts calls 'as lean and taut as a good thriller'-is nearly miraculous. First published in Russia in 1917, Albanov's narrative is here translated into English for the first time. Haunting, suspenseful, and told with gripping detail, In the Land of White Death can now rightfully take its place among the classic writings of Nansen, Scott, Cherry-Garrard, and Shackleton.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: General, History Of Other Lands, Geographical Discovery & Exploration, Guidebooks
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 14.83 USD
  • Dimensions: 136x203x16mm
  • Weight: 218g
  • Printed by: Modern Library Inc
  • Published in: New York, United States

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Authors
Dk J. H. Haynes Berlitz Marco Polo Kev Reynolds William H. Miller Jeremy Clarkson
Genres
Transportation Travel and Holiday Guides
Languages
Spanish German Not Available French English
Publishers
FRANCES LINCOLN PUBLISHERS LTD MAIRDUMONT GMBH & CO. KG JOHN BEAUFOY PUBLISHING LTD VINTAGE PUBLISHING SIMON & SCHUSTER LTD
Years
1991 1993 2001 1990 2002 1994