In April 1914, Albanov and 13 others set out on their own in homemade sledges and kayaks. When they were down to a few months’ rations, Albanov, the navigator, quarreled with the captain, who wanted to wait for a rescue team. For nearly two years the crew lived in a couple of cabins aft of the ship with a dwindling supply of food. In October 1912, the fishing vessel Santa Anna became icebound in the Kara Sea-hundreds of miles from even the northernmost islands of Siberia. The first translation of a sparse, harrowing account (originally published in 1917 in Russia) of his trek across the frozen icecaps of the Arctic.
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