description: In 1743, a ship carrying fourteen Russian sailors was headed for whaling grounds near Norway when a violent storm blew it far off course where the ship froze into the ice. Some of the sailors remembered that other sailors had erected a hut on a nearby island and spent the winter there. Four sailors volunteered to go ashore to look for the hut in hopes of finding supplies or using it as a refuge should the fourteen sailors be forced to spend the winter before the summer thaw could free their ship. Remarkably, the sailors found the hut, but when they returned to the shore, the ship had disappeared.
title: Four Against the Arctic
titlecomplete: Four Against the Arctic
genres: History, Survival, Historical, Russia, Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure, Audiobook
ratings_count: 359
publisher: Audiofy/Blackstone