Four against the Arctic
Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World
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Four against the Arctic
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Narrated by:
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Robertson Dean
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By:
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David Roberts
In 1743, a Russian ship was blown off course and trapped in ice off the coast of Svalbard (Spitzbergen), a barren Arctic island. Four sailors went ashore with only two days' supplies, and only twenty pounds of flour for food. Upon return they found the ship had vanished, apparently crushed and sunk by the ice. Blessed with courage and ingenuity, the men survived more than six years of unimaginable hardship—including polar bear attacks—until another ship blown off course rescued them.
An expert on the literature of adventure, David Roberts was incredulous when he first heard the story. His near-obsessive quest to find the true story culminated with his own journey to the same desolate island. Here, Roberts shares the remarkable story that he discovered, a meditation on the genius of survival against impossible odds.
Riveting and haunting, Four against the Arctic chronicles an incredible true story.
©2003 David Roberts (P)2003 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Reviews
“An inspirational survival story.”
(Publishers Weekly)“The tale at the heart of this recording is one of the greatest feats of wilderness survival in history…Robertson Dean’s reading [is] well paced and keeps the narrative moving.”
(AudioFile)“The book is an astonishing story, an almost unbelievable feat of survival.”
(Booklist)“Dogged research and hard travel to distant places make for a gem in the literature of survival under dire conditions.”
(Kirkus Reviews)
