Shipwrecked on the Top of the World

£8.99

In 1743 fourteen Walrus hunters from Russia were stranded on the icepack around Svalbard after a storm destroyed their ship. Marooned with minimal provisions but with their incredible endurance and improvisational skills intact, they survived the hazards and privations which the next six years put their way, until their eventual rescue.

This book combines this little-known but remarkable tale with the author's relentless quest to uncover the elusive details of those events in the unforgiving desolation of the Arctic.