En busca del último continente : El desastre del Karluk en el Ártico

In 1913, a ship set sail from Alaska to map and discover the last of the continents. On board were scientists of all kinds. It was the largest scientific expedition to the Arctic ever conceived. This unusual search for the last continent would ultimately become a true odyssey, as terrible as it was forgotten. The voyage of the ship Karluk represents the last of the old-fashioned expeditions. They departed, as in centuries past, far from any sign of civilization with which to communicate and from which to receive help. "In Search of the Last Continent" recovers this forgotten story with the pace of an adventure novel and the precision of a historical report. Through diaries, letters, and original documents, the author reconstructs the portrait of a time when science and heroism walked hand in hand, when there were still territories to be discovered and men willing to lose everything to reach them.