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　　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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　　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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　　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

书籍介绍

In 1912, two dozen men on a Russian ship found themselves frozen into the Arctic ice. Eleven tried to walk out. In the end, two made it back to civilization; Albanov was one of them. It's a great survival story, well told, and (at least until its recent reissue, which was excerpted in Adventure, November/December 2000) virtually unknown in the English-speaking world.