[Rarebooks] fs: Tragic Arctic Voyage, signed by Capt. & author

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

      Inscribed on the endpaper by Hale and
      signed on the title page by Bartlett.


Bartlett, Robert A. & Ralph T. Hale. THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK, 
Flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16.

Boston; Small, Maynard and Company: 1916.

Captain Bartlett (1875-1946) was a noted mariner who commanded ships for 
Robert Peary during his attempts to reach the North Pole. In 1913 he 
commanded the 'Karluk' for Vilhjamur Stefansson, whose expedition was 
attempting to reach the Canadian Arctic through the Bering Strait. After 
the ship had been trapped in the ice for several months and was about to be 
crushed, Bartlett led the surviving members of the crew to Wrangel Island, 
off the coast of Siberia. He and an Innuit companion then traveled 700 
miles by foot to get help.

In 1917 he would again be engaged in an Arctic rescue, this time leading an 
expedition to rescue Donald MacMillan and members of the Crocker Land 
Expedition. Between 1926 and 1946, Bartlett took his schooner 'Morrissey' 
"on 20 voyages to the Arctic, and became something of a popular hero 
through the film footage shot by cameramen accompanying him.

Hardcover. 5.5"x9", 329 pages, b/w plates. Covers a bit dusty, light soil, 
spine lettering rubbed; some scattered internal light-to-moderate foxing; 
light, barely noticeable stain to lower outer corner of several pages and 
plates. Inscribed on the endpaper by Hale to George W. Brown and dated 
"Christmas, 1916", and signed on the title page by Bartlett. [07791] $125.00





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