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　　A beguiling and valuable record of polar exploration before the planes landed, and a miraculous testament to what the human spirit can achieve. Albanov's harrowing story is a welcome addition to the canon of polar literature.
　-Sara Wheeler, author of Terra Incognita -- Review

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　　In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of hismen came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russiannavigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition thatwould prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic huntinggrounds, Albanov's ship, the Saint Anna, was frozen fast in thepack ice of the treacherous Kara Sea-a misfortune grievouslycompounded by an incompetent commander, the absence of crucialnautical charts, insufficient fuel, and inadequate provisions thatleft the crew weak and debilitated by scurvy.

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.

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作者简介

　　Valerian Albanov was born in 1881 in Voronezh, Russia, and graduated in 1904 from the Naval College of St. Petersburg. Despite his harrowing voyage aboard the Saint Anna, he continued going to sea until his death in 1919.

　　Jon Krakauer is the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.

　　David Roberts is the author of over a dozen books on mountaineering, exploration, and archaeology, including, most recently, True Summit. His work regularly appears in National Geographic Adventure, Smithsonian, and Outside, among other publications.

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