Published Voyage Accounts
Six first-hand accounts of Karluk's last voyage have been published. These include Stefansson's account which only covers the June to September 1913 period. Expedition secretary Burt McConnell wrote an account of the Wrangel Island rescue which was published in The New York Times, 15 September 1914. A version of McConnell's account appears in Stefansson's book.
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | Robert Bartlett | "Bartlett's story of the Karluk" | The New York Times 1 June 1914 | Bartlett's brief account after his return to Alaska 31 May 1914 |
| 1916 | Robert Bartlett and Ralph Hale | The Last Voyage of the Karluk | McLelland, Goodchild and Stewart, Toronto | |
| 1918 | Ernest Chafe | "The Voyage of the Karluk, and its Tragic Ending" | The Geographical Journal, May 1918 | |
| 1921 | Vilhjalmur Stefansson | The Friendly Arctic Ch. III to V | The Macmillan Company, New York | Deals only with events up to Stefansson's departure in September 1913 |
| 1921 | John Hadley | "The Story of the Karluk" | The Macmillan Company, New York | As told to Stefansson. Published as an Appendix in The Friendly Arctic |
| 1976 | William Laird McKinlay | Karluk: The great untold story of Arctic exploration | St Martin's Press, New York |
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