Empire of ice and stone : the disastrous and heroic voyage of the Karluk / Buddy Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levy, Buddy, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Karluk (Ship).

Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration.

Arctic regions.

Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918).

Canadian Arctic Expedition.

Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946.

Bartlett, Bob.

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962.

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur.

Shipwrecks--Arctic Ocean.

Shipwrecks.

Discoveries in geography.

Arctic Ocean.

Arctic Regions.

Physical Description:

xvi, 412 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022.

Summary:

"The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came to define it. In the summer of 1913, the wooden-hulled brigantine Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean. At the helm was Captain Bob Bartlett, considered the world's greatest living ice navigator. The expedition's visionary leader was a flamboyant impresario named Vilhjalmur Stefansson hungry for fame. Just six weeks after the Karluk departed, giant ice floes closed in around her. As the ship became icebound, Stefansson disembarked with five companions and struck out on what he claimed was a 10-day caribou hunting trip. Most on board would never see him again. Twenty-two men and an Inuit woman with two small daughters now stood on a mile-square ice floe, their ship and their original leader gone. Under Bartlett's leadership they built make-shift shelters, surviving the freezing darkness of Polar night. Captain Bartlett now made a difficult and courageous decision. He would take one of the young Inuit hunters and attempt a 1000-mile journey to save the shipwrecked survivors. It was their only hope. Set against the backdrop of the Titanic disaster and World War I, filled with heroism, tragedy, and scientific discovery, Buddy Levy's Empire of Ice and Stone tells the story of two men and two distinctively different brands of leadership: one selfless, one self-serving, and how they would forever be bound by one of the most audacious and disastrous expeditions in polar history, considered the last great voyage of The Heroic Age of Discovery"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Birth of an Explorer

2. Master Mariner

3. Toward the Discovery of New Lands

4. Omens

5. Mirages

6. Beset

7. The Caribou Hunt

8. Adrift

9. "As Lambs Left to the Slaughter"

10. A Change of Plans

11. Winter Is Coming

12. Long Arctic Nights

13. An Arctic Christmas

14. Reunions

15. "Funeral March"

16. Shipwreck Camp

17. The Wrong Island

18. Islands of the Lost

19. A Mountain Range of Ice

20. The Ice Road

21. "Nuna! Nuna!"

21. Searching for Crocker Land

23. An Audacious Plan

24. Hospital Igloo

25. Into the Leads

26. Rationing and Divisions

27. Ferrying

28. Little Molly

29. Smoke from a Distant Fire

30. Separation and Surgeries

31. Heading East

32. "As Long as There Is Life, There Is Hope"

33. Anything Might Yet Happen

34. Snow-Blind

35. News to the "World

36. Exodus to Cape Waring

37. The Bear

38. Crowbill Point

39. "Our Suspicions Have Been Raised"

40. Salad Oil and Scurvy Grass

41. "Doing Something at Last"

42. The Sea Serpent

43. The World at War

44. "Starvation Tin"

45. "Days to Try a Man's Soul"

46. Confluence

47. "Umiakpik Kunnol"

48. Reunited

49. Beyond the Ice

50. Bartlett Versus Stefansson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-401) and index.

ISBN:

9781250274441

1250274443

OCLC:

1289246157